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Background
Martha Saudek, a native Californian. began painting at the age of five. Later she studied art at Scripps and Pomona College. She also studied drawing and painting at UCLA and the California Art Institute where she presently teaches a class in oil landscape painting. She lives with her husband, Victor, in Los Angeles.
Saudek loves to capture light in her paintings. Her subject matter is usually landscape, but scenes will vary, as she paints rivers and streams, clouds, majestic mountains, trees and, beautiful gardens with equal facility. Painting only in oil, she develops scenes in vivid colors which convey her love of nature.
Saudek's fine oils are in private collections throughout the United States as well as Europe, Japan and Taiwan. She has won well over 100 awards including many Best of Show and First Place prizes. She was one of six award winners in The Artist's Magazine's 1992 national landscape painting competition. She is listed in Who's Who in American Art. Exhibitions of her work in the United States include two paintings the Top 100, The Art for the Parks 1994 competition, Jackson, WY; the Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; the Allied Artists of America show; the Salmagundi Club; and the Professional Artists' League, all in New York, NY; the Capitol Rotunda, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (the Museum has purchased one of her paintings for its permanent collection), the Peppertree Ranch show, Los Olivos, CA; and the Classic American Western Art exhibition at the Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA. She has also participated in exhibitions in Taiwan and Italy. She is represented by galleries in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Idaho, Wyoming and Illinois.
Publications featuring Saudek's oil painting techniques include the books, Painting with Passion, by Carole Katchen, North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, and, How to Paint Trees, Flowers and Foliage, by Patricia Seligman, B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London, United Kingdom. Magazine articles about her work have been published in The Revue Magazine, The Artist's Magazine and Art of the West. An article in Southwest Art is upcoming, Recently she was interviewed and gave an oil painting demonstration on the cable network channel 56, Los Angeles, CA.
Exhibiting Galleries
Artists Trait - Claremont, CA
C. L. Clark Galleries - Bakersfield, CA
Courtyard Collection Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Off Grand - Los Olivos, CA
Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art - San Antonio, TX
Grolet Gallery - Pasadena, CA
Charles Hecht Galleries - Tarzana, CA and La Jolla, CA
Lyon Gallery - Scottsdale, AZ
Morseburg Galleries - Los Angeles, CA
Palos Verdes Art Association Galleries - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Painter's Palette - Calistoga, CA
Pogan Gallery - South Lake Tahoe, CA
Poulsen Gallery - Pasadena, CA
Silverthorne Gallery - Jackson Hole, WY
Sleeping Bear Gallery - Ketchum, ID
Tirage Art Consultants - La Cnada, CA
Waterhouse Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA