February 2011 Featured Artist: Eliza Schmid
I am a product of the Post World War II period of Austria, where I grew up surrounded by the School of Fantastic Realism in Vienna where I also became an avid collector of those works. Much later in life I finally was able to become a painter myself. Before that I was busy bringing up my three children and working as a medical doctor. In 1976 I received a fellowship to Stanford University for some special work I had done in Pathology. I then stayed in the US and became a psychiatrist and worked for the next 25 years as a psychiatrist for the indigent people of Los Angeles. I had my first art show in Los Angeles in 2001 which sold out although I had never attended an art school in my life. After moving to Santa Fe in 2002 I have been taking classes in art a the Santa Fe Community College which I still do and have become a more accomplished and sophisticated painter, hopefully. After finally comprehending that I cannot work in every possible style or medium, I have specialized in abstract oil paintings on larger canvases and in small egg tempera paintings which I can do in my living room on cold winter nights.
