Stella Canfield

Official brand ambassador of DANIEL SMITH Present of IWS California USA

Representative of USA for UrbinoInAcquerello, Italy

Stella was born in Varna, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Academy of Sports in Sofia with a Masters Degree in teaching. Stella dedicated the first thirty years of her life to sports and achieved considerable success as a national competitor in rowing. In 1980 she left her native country illegally to escape the oppressive regime of com- munism. After living and working for five years in Germany, she moved to the USA in 1985.

In Germany Stella worked with ceramics which marked the beginning of her artistic career. Being an admirer of watercolor since childhood, she became an avid follower of this exciting medium. She was fortunate to study with some of the best American master watercolorists such as Milford Zornes, Serge Hollerbach, Carla O!Connor, Frank Webb, Robert Wade (Australia) and many others.

In 1998 Stella opened her own gallery in the town of Coupeville, Washington, USA. In 2000 she founded the Stellar Arts Foundation, an educational and charitable non- profit organization, dedicated to helping orphaned children in Bulgaria.

Since 2001 Stella has been invited annually to teach at Daniel Smith Inc., one of the leading companies in the world for the production and sale of art pigments and mediums. The company purchased one of her paintings for its permanent collection and included her DVD “Debunking the Myth of Talent” in their distribution network. She was recently honored by Daniel Smith with two Stella Canfield!s Artist Master Sets of her favorite colors and included in CEO John Cogley!s one-on-one video in- terviews titled In the Artist’s Studio.

Today Stella teaches watercolor, juries and participates in exhibits initiated by art or- ganizations in the USA, Europe and Asia. She has received many international awards for her work. Her paintings are in several private, corporate, and museum collections in America, Europe and Asia.

Stella!s work and contribution to American art are published in the book by Karlyn Holman "Watercolor – The Spirit of Spontaneity”. Her biography is included in Who!s Who in America? and Who!s Who in American Women?

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