Monica Postell • Delray Beach, Florida

Born and raised in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Monica Postell now lives and works near the beach overlooking the intercoastal waterway in Delray Beach Florida.

Early art training included a summer class in clay sculpting at the Art Institute of Chicago, during which the then grammar school student produced three seminal works: A giraffe perhaps from the Jurassic period, a Madonna that closely resembled England’s Queen Victoria, and a ballerina wearing a tutu who, unable to stand ‘en pointe,’ instead sits in a faintly yogic cross-legged pose.

Largely self-trained, the artist works in any media that strikes her fancy – currently, watercolor, oil, and pastel. She paints landscapes of places she travels, fruit and floral still lives, and portraits.

E-mail: mpostell@postellartworks.com