Adrienne Stein is an award winning American artist living and working in Pennsylvania and Colorado. Her paintings celebrate the natural world through bold, vibrant color. The lush magical environments and figures she depicts blend reality and fantasy, expressed through a world of symbolic imagery. Direct observation of nature coalesces with memory, imagination, art history, folklore, archetypes, and natural elements that are fueled by a sense of personal as well as universal myth.

Adrienne holds an MFA from Boston University and a BFA Magna Cum Laude, from Laguna College of Art & Design. She has studied under many influential instructors throughout the United States, France, and Italy.

About Riverbend, Stein shares, “I chose a vertical composition for Riverbend because I wanted the first impression to be that of a soaring cathedral. The trees are towering vaulted pillars. The light coming through the grass, the hair, the leaves, and the pheasant wing are reminiscent of a stained glass window. My model Felissia, with her dreadlocks and earthy style, is cast as a forest sprite or an earthbound angel. Her setting is a creek in a park in Denver, Colorado that is a quiet spiritual sanctuary in stark contrast to the bustling urban environment surrounding it. My hope is that this painting – and all of my work — offers an antidote to our noisy, industrialized, and information saturated world.”