Helping People
Connect
With Nature Through Art
Rochelle
Mason, Painter
Rochelle Mason has been painting animals professionally
since 1980 and in 1990 began
focusing her talents on endangered species. Nowadays she is especially
passionate
about
representing unpopular animals and those that get little public
attention.
"My Mom taught
me the most
valuable lesson about animals when I was
young: respect them and learn from them", says Rochelle. "At the
time, I was dealing with a spider."
Knowing most
people don't
like animals such as snakes and spiders and bats
and bugs, it has become Mason's personal mission to help people
see nature's beauty, understand it's value, and transcend
"speciesism". Mason's new series of abstract paintings, Focus on NatureTM:
Beyond Eden, reveals alluring
attributes
of
these unpopular animals, so ambiguous viewers get immersed in currents
of
color, eddies of paint and intriguing, whimsical shapes that beg a
closer look,
inviting curiosity and fascination.
Numerous
traveling exhibitions of Mason's paintings featured primarily in
natural
history museums and her nationally-published column, Focus on NatureTM:
Insight into the Lives of Animals, have helped Rochelle
accomplish her
mission.
A science degree
in
Veterinary Technology, neatly tucked in her back pocket,
has been advantageous in understanding the anatomy of who and what
she's
painting, from arthropod skeletal structure to wing venation. Rochelle
also
covertly weaves her interests in cosmology and quantum mechanics into
her work. She loves
defining loose, spontaneous brush strokes, adding minute details and
offering
uber close-up perspectives.
Resumé
Rochelle
Mason (c. 1958, Chicago IL)
Exhibitions
2013
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Midwest
Museum of Natural History; Sycamore, Illinois
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2012
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Discovery
Museum, World Forestry Center; Portland, Oregon
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2010
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Earl
Bane Gallery; Salina, Kansas
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2008
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Bern Natural History Museum;
Bern, Switzerland
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2007
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Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History;
Pacific Grove, California
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Oxford University Museum of Natural
History; Oxford, England
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Feline Conservation
Federation; Dallas, Texas
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1995 |
Bishop Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii
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Ho’omaluhia Botanical
Gardens;
Honolulu, Hawaii
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Lyman
Museum; Hilo, Hawaii
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Kaua’i Museum; Lihue, Hawaii
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Volcano Art Center Gallery;
Volcano, Hawaii
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1994
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Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History;
Pacific Grove, California
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San
Diego Natural History Museum; San Diego, California
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Don
Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge; Newark,
California
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Yosemite
Museum; Yosemite National Park, California
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1993
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Coastal Gallery; Half
Moon Bay,
California
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1992
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San Francisco
International
Airport; San Francisco, California
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Big Basin Redwoods State
Park; Boulder Creek, California
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Henry Cowell Redwoods
State Park; Felton, California
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Coyote
Point Museum; San Mateo, California
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Lindsay Wildlife Museum;
Walnut Creek, California
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Point Reyes National Seashore;
Point Reyes, California
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1991
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State Capitol
Building,
Sacramento, California
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Illustrated columns
1998-2006 Focus
on
Nature:
Insight into the Lives of Animals
Endangered
Species UPDATE
(University of Michigan)
ESA Today (Endangered
Species
Coalition)
Endangered Species
Bulletin (US
Fish &
Wildlife Service)
Wildlife Art Magazine
Hawaii Island Journal
Coast Views Magazine
Half
Moon Bay Review
Feline Conservation
Federation Magazine
Turtle Talk (Sea Turtle
Preservation Society)
Endangered
Species and
Wetlands Report
Outdoor America
Magazine (Isaak Walton
League of
America)
Mockingbird Chronicles (South
Plains
Wildlife
Rehab Center)
Big
Island
Drive Guide
News of the Lepidopterist's
Society
Volcano Community News
Arts for the AnimalsTM
1992-1995
Arts for the
AnimalsTM,
created by Rochelle Mason, is/was a contest and exhibit of endangered
species
artwork created by school children to help increase their understanding
of
these species through active involvement.
Private Collections
Wildlife Conservation
Research Unit; Abingdon, England
Additional works held
in private collections in Tokyo, Japan; northern California; North
Carolina
Selected Bibliography
"Wildkatzen dieser
Welt", Schweizer Familie Magazine, Bern,
Switzerland Mar 2009
"Feline Conservation Federation News", Feline Conservation Federation,
monthly issues, 2007-2009
“Natures Way”,
Wildlife
Art Magazine, Mar/Apr 2006
O’Neill, Gwen “Arts and
Entertainment”, Coast Views Magazine, Half Moon
Bay,
California, Nov 2005
Trevenon, Stacy
“Spotlighting Species on the Brink”, Half Moon Bay
Review, Half
Moon Bay, California, June 10, 1998
“Bay Area Artists
Capture Pets on Canvas”, San Francisco Chronicle,
November
12, 1997
Art contribution,
Wildlife Art Magazine, Mar/Apr 1996
Panofsky, Marilyn
“Artist of the Month”, Coast Views Magazine, Half
Moon Bay,
California, Dec 1995
“Educating with art”,
Hawaii Tribune Herald, Hilo, Hawaii, May 10, 1995
Japanese Beach Press,
March 24-April 6, 1995
Windward Sun Press,
Kaneohe, HI, March 16-22, 1995
“Hawaii’s Endangered
Species”, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu,
Hawaii,
December 16, 1994
Neswitz, Margye “Social
Scene”, Monterey County Herald, Monterey,
California,
August 2, 1994
Friedman, Julius
“Saving Animals with Art”, Monterey County Herald,
July 15,
1994
“Art News”, The Carmel
Pine Cone, Carmel, California, July 14 and 28,
1994
Coastside Journal, Half
Moon Bay, California, Dec 8, 1993
“Museum exhibits
Endangered Species”, San Diego Sentinel, October 21,
1993
“Montage”, San Mateo
County Times, San Mateo, California, May 6, 1992
Hayde, Monica
“Peninsula Names & Faces”, The Times Tribune, San
Mateo,
California, April 24, 1992
Donnelly, Kathleen
“Man’s Best Friend”, Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto,
California, March 23, 1988
Grants and Awards
1995
Artist-in-Residence Grant; Volcano Art Center, Volcano, Hawaii
1993
Grant to
Individual Artists; Peninsula Community Foundation,
San
Mateo, California
Lectures and Public
Speaking
2007
Lecture, Feline
Conservation Federation; Dallas, Texas
1995
Interview, KWXX
Radio; Hilo, Hawaii
1995
Interview, ABC
Radio Australia; Victoria, Australia
1995
Lecture, Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park; Hawaii
1991
Lecture, State
Capitol Building; Sacramento, California
Education
Self-taught
artist. Science degree in Veterinary Technology, Purdue University, W
Lafayette, Indiana
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