Connie Newton Stancell

Connie Newton Stancell is an award winning artist and in 2010, was selected for induction into The National Association of Women Artists (N.A.W.A.). Also, her work was recently chosen for inclusion in the Spring 2012 edition of Studio Visit Magazine published by Open Studios Press, Boston, MA and which will be distributed to about 2,000 curators and gallerists throughout the country.

Solo exhibitions of Stancell’s paintings include Homage to Nature at Les Beaux Arts Gallery, Greenwich, CT (2011) and Inspired by Nature at Esther Rauschenbush Library, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (2010). Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous group shows including the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art (GA), Salmagundi Club (NY), The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc. (NY) and the Silvermine Guild’s Art of the Northeast (CT).

Born in Vermont, Stancell grew up in rural New England, her father a dairy farmer and her mother, a school teacher. Her BA was earned at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where her coursework included German, Physics and History of Art. She now resides with her husband in Connecticut where she has her studio.

Stancell’s interest in art started with her love of paintings by her grandmother and was further heightened by her History of Art studies, by two and a half years living in London and by extensive international travels which included visits to numerous museums and galleries around the world. She studied drawing and painting, notably at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and at The Spruill Art Center in Dunwoody, GA.