Olivia Marie Braida Chiusano is a botanical artist in her own right. The great thing about her is that she is also a botanical art teacher, a writer, and an educator par excellence. Presenting botanical art with Realism is her forte. Today to get a great botanical artist as a teacher is a rare commodity and therefore all those students who have studied botanical art under her are extremely lucky. I am sure you would like to know more about this highly acclaimed personality.
Olivia Marie Braida Chiusano marries science with art in her botanical illustrations with great precision to detail. She is able to do this because she is well versed in all aspects of Botany and the art, history, and technique of botanical illustration.
If you happen to view some of her artwork you will be surprised by the clarity, the balance, and the sheer realism of the pieces. They will evoke in you straightaway respect for her.
Another aspect about her is her caring attitude towards all her students. When she teaches botanical art, students listen spellbound to her and with deep interest. They know they are in the presence of a great master.
For Olivia, botanical art is an expression of both tranquility and passion of the full glory of botanical specimens in comprehensive real-looking illustrations. For her, great botanical artwork needs dedication and complete concentration. It comes from practice and knowledge.
She also sees complete surrender to botanical art as a prime factor in the quality of the final outcome. She perceives that it is only by this means that freedom and creativity are properly channelized.
OM is short for Olivia Marie and also a sort of ism that she uses as mottos when she teaches botanical art. She inculcates in her students development of a feeling for botanical specimens. For it is then that a botanical artist can gauge where to shade and where not to, is what she clearly expounds. It is after looking at the color, botanical structure, texture, line, surface, and form of a botanical specimen that an artist can try to paint the specimen with justice to art.
If you want to become a student of OM then one way to do that is to join the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida for that is where she has taught for a long period of time now. If you simply want to view her award-winning botanical art then you need to visit one of her exhibitions in South Florida. Orchidaceae Paradiso is a series of most beautiful orchid plant watercolor paintings by her and one of her numerous best works. She has illustrated them in life-like form, exquisite balance, shimmering detail, and balance.
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