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Meet Connie Glowacki, the Artist

• Connie's Biography
• Welcoming - Poem

My goal in drawing and painting is to transport the viewer of my work to a special time and place, a place of beauty and special insight, which is often fleeting because of the changing effects of light.

Fascination with light and shadow as they define shape and textures has led me to an increasingly wider scope of subject matter. Light passing through sheer fabric, gleaming from a porch at midnight, casting shadows down a wooden pier illuminating boats in the harbor, these subjects challenge me to take you there!

Connie has a B.S. and M.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and taught elementary school. She and her husband, Mike, create, mat, frame and market her work.

Her memberships include Janesville Art League, Peninsula Art Association, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors/Artists and All Media, National Watercolor Society, American Watercolor Society, and signature membership in Wisconsin Watercolor Society, and Watercolor USA Honor Society. She continues to receive top honor in shows and her work is included in corporate and private collections throughout the nation.

Connie's work is featured in the following art magazines:

Welcoming I'll leave the light on you can come home, Whenever you want, if you're ever alone. I'll leave the light on, when it gets colder. Love me or not, you can cry on my shoulder. I'll leave the light on, you can fall back in my arms. Don't be afraid, don't be alarmed. I'll leave the light on, there's a key by the door. I'll leave the light on, Forevermore.

"Welcoming"

by Candice Bayer
an 8th Grader who was writing in response to Welcoming in her English class taught by Carol Makush, Wyandotte, MI .

Connie Glowacki Telling Stories

Watercolorist Connie Glowacki tells stories with her art. "I want to take people (to the scene in the picture)," the Wisconsin artist says. "I want each picture to be a story that brings back a memory and makes them want to go someplace or gives them some insight."

Glowacki's own art tale started 16 years ago. After taking a few years off from teaching to raise her two children, she enrolled in a watercolor class instead of returning to work right away. As a result, she discovered a talent she didn't know she had. "It was a wonderful surprise," she says.

Glowacki attributes her talent in part to her faith. "Every single picture I paint, I ask for help", she says. "I never know if they're going to really work." When she succeeds, it's unmistakable. Whether she paints juicy red grapes glistening with tiny drops of water, an oak tree casting its majestic shadow on the snow or the reflections in the ripples on a lake, she captures the images so realistically that the people often think they're photographs.

But Glowacki wants to capture her viewers' emotions as well. "The picture is not what I want to show," she says. "I want to show how I feel about it. I want you to feel that you're there." When the oak tree's blue and purple shadows hit the snow in the afternoon light, "You fee like you'd better get your jacket on," she says.

Glowacki also loves to share her talent and her love of beauty. She demonstrates drawing at art shows and encourages people to try it themselves. "If people can find some way to be creative, to show their impression of the world-whether it's singing or just humming - they're responding to the world around them," she explains. "The more they do it, the richer their lives become." Once a week, she works with kindergarten through 5th grade students - reading them stories, showing them things and allowing them to respond in their own ways.

And just as she teaches others, Glowacki is constantly learning and striving to surmount the next challenge. "I'm always pushing a little further, always trying something new," she says. "I have a love affair with the picture I'm painting. I want to get to know it as well as I possibly can and draw out all of its best qualities." If it ends well, she enjoys her success but moves quickly on to a new and different subject before she lets herself relax too much.

Glowacki used to be jealous of people with talent. When someone could sit down at a piano and find a tune with ease or sing in perfect pitch, she envied that gift. But now she has found her own perfect pitch, and she wants to share it with others. "The fact that I can paint good pictures is wonderful," Glowacki says. "But God has given me a talent so that I can encourage other people to find theirs."