Cecie Feiner Borschow AWS, NWS
"I do not remember exactly when I decided to become an artist. Art was all around me from the day I was born. My grandfather was a collector of paintings, sculpture, antique tapestries, Oriental and Native American carpets, artifacts and furniture. Growing up, I watched my father design advertisements for the Mexican-American newspaper. My parents enrolled me in private drawing lessons on Saturday mornings. Loving to draw, my solitary time was spent copying figures and faces out of fashion magazines, and making clothing for paper dolls, all the time dreaming of becoming a fashion designer. In high school, I designed my own evening gowns. With my mothers' encouragement, I chose the fabrics and we found a seamstress to make them. I felt lucky and very proud to wear my own creations to high school and college dances."
A native Texan, Cecie grew up in El Paso; majored in Fine Art at the University of Texas in Austin. She married and moved to Dallas putting her dream on hold, while raising three children. "My one day of the week out of the house, I studied oil painting, eventually learning the glazing technique. The transition from oil to watercolor came naturally. One of my sons, who studied watercolor, encouraged me to try it. At first I resisted, but then decided to take a class at Richland Community College. After that, I took a two week workshop in Ruidoso, New Mexico with Judi Betts. It was heavenly and I fell in love - with watercolor, that is!" Then she was off and running. Her children were older and she took advantage of them being in school, by painting all day almost every day, and again late into the night. Cecie has studied with some of the greatest artists: among them Robert E. Wood, Leo Smith, Rob Erdle, Polly Hammett, Jeanne Dobie, and Katherine Chang Liu, whom she admired and were her mentors.
San Miguel Fish Watercolor (11" x 15")
The prestigious American Watercolor Society of New York and the National Watercolor Society of California elected Cecie to Signature Membership. "Along with my children, these are my proudest achievements."
Cecie has worked to develop her own style and color sense. " My style continues to grow as I experiment. Working in water media, I explore non-objective as well as realism. The non-objective and abstract work instinctively comes from my inner being, a spiritual place. I am not sure where it will take me, but I am excited about taking this risk in order to continue to grow." Cecie Borschow is active in local art groups and has served on the Boards of Richardson Civic Art Society and Southwestern Watercolor Society. She was featured in Southwest Watercolor Society's newsletter "Spot Light on the Artist." Her work has won awards in juried art competitions all over the United States. She is a Signature Member of Southwestern Watercolor Society, Texas Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Artists and Craftsmen Association, and the Purple Sage Brush Honorary Society. . She has had one-woman exhibitions in Sedona, Arizona; Louisville, Kentucky; El Paso and Dallas, Texas.
She is a founding member of Art Focus XC, a professional artist group. Her paintings have been published in Southwest Art Magazine, Watercolor and American Artist Publication, The Best of Watercolor and Splash 7: The Celebration of Light, among others. Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, and Who’s Who of American Women listed her in their publications. Her work is in the collections of art lovers across the United States and Europe and has been widely exhibited in Museums and Galleries. Native American after Chihuly Mixed watermedia (20" x 19") Return from Cecie Feiner Borschow to Home See more of Cecie's work at Art Focus XC |
Cecie Feiner Borschow is a founding co-owner of Artists' Showplace Gallery.
