BIOGRAPHY
Adriance de Groff is a professional Fine Artist, who has been creating a wide array of works in a wide array of styles for over twenty five years. Her work ranges from miniatures to enormous canvases of animals, still life and fantasy or a combination of all three.
Asking me why I paint is like asking why the ocean ebbs and flows. It is what I am designed to do. It is an innate passion. From early childhood on, being the offspring of highly artistic parents, I was exposed to fine art and design in many forms and it is from this background that I have emerged.
ARTIST STATEMENT
If I could behold all I imagine….
Charlotte Bronte as Jane Eyre
My new work weaves a line between fantasy and reality, some is pure fantasy and some just wishful thinking. I love romance, mystery, and all things mystical, and like to explore the ideas of youth, beauty, loneliness, power, fragility, vulnerability, darkness and light. I have combined my love of animals, jewelry, dresses, crowns, lace, wrought iron, flowers, the ocean and the wind into imagery that tells a mysterious story without words. They allow you, the viewer, to decide the story and its ending.
We all wander the moors in white dresses don’t we?
And your answer will be yes, because we all love a good story, a great romance, and a beautiful ending . We never tire of fairy tales no matter what our age, they are the beginnings of our dreams, I have taken my dreams
to canvas.
I enjoy painting, cakes, dresses, lace, whimsical scenes, landscapes, deer, crowns, jewelry, oil painting, artists, teaching, animals, houses, wrought iron, pretty things, sparkly things, ocean, women, shabby chic, fantasy, beautiful ladies, decor, design, horses, ponies, dogs, cats, animal portraits, commissions