Heide Presse

The following, submitted November 2004, is from the artist:

Heide E. Presse was born in 1958 in Heidelberg, Germany, and grew up in Louisiana. Born with a natural artistic talent into a family with no other artistically inclined members, Presse had no formal art instruction until college. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in design from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1980. She worked as a commercial artist in Texas, but now calls Florida home with her husband and son. In 1990, she decided to focus exclusively on painting, working in watercolor first, and more recently oil..

Presses's paintings have been juried into the Top 100 of the Arts for the Parks exhibition in 1989, '92, '94, and 1996-2004.   ...  Displaying 750 of 3316 characters.