Jerry Salinas: It's ALL About the Art with Camille Przewodek

Jerry Salinas interviews Camille Przwodek about the uniqueness of her art.
Something about the paintings of Camille Przewodek stops you, then brings a smile to your face. Maybe it is the vitality of the colors, or the feeling of intrigue one gets from the houses; windows and doorways beckon us to enter, while retaining dark secrets about what is inside.
Przewodek’s style is distinctive for its rich saturated color and luscious oil paint. She believes that just about any scene is beautiful, if you are willing to seek out the beauty in it. “I paint light, that’s what I do. When people say they like a painting that has bright colors in it, they obviously like sunny days. For others the appeal is found in the cooler colors of gray days. The abstract relationships of the big structures and the masses of color are where I begin. How does the sky relate to a hill and to the foreground? I see the relationships and proportions of color in my mind, and then I go for it!”
After graduating with her BFA in 1972, Przewodek took a trip to Europe that presaged her future. “I did a series of postcard paintings that I sent to people. Then I gathered them together into a series I called Art on the Road. “ She’s been attracted to roadways ever since and often paints paths that lead to destinations left up to the imagination to conjure.
Przewodek attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco where she met her husband, Dale Axelrod, an artist who introduced her to the artist who would change her life forever. “Dale asked me if I wanted to attend Henry Hensche’s painting workshop in Provincetown, MA,” she says. “I had never worked with a master before; it was like becoming a part of art history.”
Today, Przewodek carries on Hensche’s tradition by teaching his theories to others in workshops. The lineage of her instruction goes back through Hensche to his teacher Charles Webster Hawthorne, who had studied with William Merritt Chase. As with the French impressionists, American impressionism focused on painting outdoors and observing light and atmosphere on color. Unlike French impressionism, however, American impressionists tended to pay greater attention to the solidity of form. This was part of Hensche’s training: rather than drawing objects, then “coloring them in,” Przewodek learned to see the myriad subtleties of tones and values that create form.
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