Zoë AnnFischer

“You Are Never Alone”

Materials:  Oil Paint on Canvas

Minimum Price: $1400

Website: zoeannfischer.com

Statement
Painting for me is a type of mediation, an opportunity to pay homage to the magnificent beauty of the natural environment and to interact with that beauty in an act of creation. The languid movement of clouds, the ever-changing light that illuminates our surroundings and shifts the colors of a landscape as the sun makes its daily journey across the sky beckons me to capture this grace on canvas. It seems only natural to express my sense of fascination and my appreciation for the natural world with brush stroke and color, and in this I am infinitely rewarded with a sense of joy and satisfaction that never diminishes. The subjects I paint allow me to stop, look around and appreciate how truly breathtaking this earth really is. I want to take the viewer with me to a place out of time, where we lose ourselves in observation and are enveloped by the brilliance of the natural world.

The genesis of this painting came from a walk I took with some friends along a beautiful pathway in Palos Verdes, California. The light was dazzling and surrounded us with a golden amber glow. “You Are Never Alone” evokes the magic of that moment in time.

Bio
Born and raised in the topographically diverse environment of Los Angeles, California, Zoë Ann Fischer began exploring the arts early, immersing herself in drawing and painting, an activity she particularly enjoyed doing outdoors. As her interest in the arts grew, Zoë Ann began studying the violin and participating with her school orchestra, an endeavor that led to performing concerts at the Hollywood Bowl before the age of ten. What started as a child’s innate sense of exploration, developed into an earnest desire to study art.
Zoë Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA, majoring in both art and music. Within the Art Department, she pursued painting, drawing, sculpting, pottery, jewelry design, and weaving. Musically, she participated with the Roger Wagner Choir and concentrated on developing her abilities as a vocalist.

During her tenure at UCLA, Zoë Ann received a Grammy nomination for the category of best album cover. The work, an abstract painting, appeared on the jazz album, “Extension,” by internationally acclaimed composer, Clare Fischer. A reproduction of Zoë Ann’s “Extension” painting appears in William Claxton’s and Hitoshi Namekata’s West Coast Jazz: Artwork of Pacific Jazz Records published in 1993.

After college, Zoë Ann continued to paint and sing while she embarked on raising a family. After her divorce, as a means to support her family, she decided to combine her artistic ambitions with her keen business acumen, opening a boutique, Zoë Antiques, on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Specializing in Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Zoë Antiques attracted a celebrity clientele and the interest of Vogue magazine, which devoted feature coverage of Zoë Antiques biannually in the magazine’s Boutique section.

After eight years in the business, Zoë Ann turned to a new challenge: selling real estate and buying, remodeling, and selling homes for her personal gain-an endeavor that proved very successful. Interested in working with livable space, Zoë Ann created enhanced living environments, most especially master bedrooms and kitchens, which were designed to impart beauty and elegance, on the one hand, while maintaining optimum functionality on the other. In 2000, Zoë Ann ranked among the top 6% of Prudential California Realty Company’s producers.

In 2001, Zoë Ann’s life took a dramatic new turn; she moved to Palm Desert and began painting full time. Surrounded by the majestic mountains and sky of the desert, Zoë Ann’s new environment provided the perfect inspirational setting to reengage in plain air painting and landscape studies. Painting both outdoors and in her studio, Zoë Ann currently finds herself exclusively captivated by working in oil on canvas and linen board.

Zoë Ann is now represented by the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California; Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea, New York; Adagio Gallery in Palm Desert, California; and Gallery Andrea in Scottsdale, Arizona. Zoë Ann has also received an array of awards and recognition across the United States in private and public collections.