Yvonne Manipon completed an MA in Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Oregon, where she majored in Fine and Applied Arts and Art History.
Currently, she lives and works in Honolulu, Hawaii. Over the past 20 years, she has lived in both Hawaii and the Pacific NW where she has been painting landscapes, investigating the unique quality of light, textures, movement and atmosphere in each region. All of her paintings are created on location “en plein air”. "Painting outdoors is invigorating and challenging, I enjoy the solitude, sounds, sites, fragrance, and drama of the outdoors. I am driven by the challenge of capturing directly onto canvas the essence of what inspires me."
-Yvonne Manipon |
Influences:
Gustave Courbet, Eugene Delacroix, Pierre Bonnard, Lucian Freud, Emily Carr, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, and William Wendt.
Gustave Courbet, Eugene Delacroix, Pierre Bonnard, Lucian Freud, Emily Carr, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, and William Wendt.