{"id":15383,"date":"2017-12-06T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/?p=15383"},"modified":"2017-12-06T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:03:32","slug":"carly-mejeur-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/carly-mejeur-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"CARLY MEJEUR, ARTIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a>

\"\"Carly Mejeur is a daughter of Florida, born and raised. Her life and her art are deeply connected to the ocean that surrounds America\u2019s peninsular state. No wonder then that she was inspired to use old maps and charts as the surface for her watercolor paintings depicting marine and land creatures found in the surrounding sea and shore.<\/p>\n

Her education took her out of the state to Baltimore to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting and a master of fine arts in art education. After returning to Florida, she became an art teacher at the Palm Beach County public charter school. The school focuses on Marine Science and conservation, two of Carly\u2019s abiding interests.<\/p>\n

Her latest artistic pursuit is the Nautical Chart Series in which she has set aside her figural oil painting technique and embraced the use of watercolor on maps and charts. Work from this series garnered her South Miami Arts Festival prizes for \u201cBest in Show\u201d and \u201cBest in Category\u201d for 2017. Carly attends art shows and does well selling her prints and gaining commissions.\u00a0This was her first outing as a participating artist at\u00a0ChamberSouth\u2019s signature art event. Commenting on her experiences at the show, Carly said, \u201cI would definitely go back. It was a well-put together show, and the volunteer booth
\nsitters were a blessing for the artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carly\u2019s delicate watercolor depictions of water birds and marine animals are painted on the map or chart in the location that particular creature inhabits. The delicate and somewhat fragile handling of the paint represents the delicate and fragile existence that many of these animals face as their habitat loses the ability to support them. Her work features Florida and other marine environments around the world.<\/p>\n\n\t\t