Corinne Lapin-Cohen
Corinne Lapin-Cohen is an artist living and working in Katonah, New York, serves on the Katonah Museum Artists Advisory Board, and teaches drawing and painting at StoneHouse Studio in Katonah.
After painting traditional botanical watercolors for 25 years, nature continues to be her muse. She paints in oil and watercolor, and draws with metal pointe. “Experiences, sensations and memories stored in my imagination inspire me to give visual voice to the beauty, fragility and ephemeral nature of our world.“
Her work is now a balance between pure abstraction and identifiable subject matter.
She paints with transparent layers of single pigments glazed over and over again, allowing your eye to see through the layers, and create infinite shifts of color. Fragments of nature are often incorporated into her oil paintings.
When drawing with metalpointe, she uses silver and gold, on specially prepared paper. Over time the metals oxidize and tarnish becoming “living drawings,” as they will continue to alter over a lifetime.
Corinne was the founder of the botanical art program at The Lasdon Arboretum, taught botanical watercolor and drawing at The New York Botanical Gardens, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, and as an adjunct professor at Lehman College.
Her work is exhibited in museums, art galleries, corporations, botanical gardens, arboretums, hospitals and environmental centers throughout the country. She is part of the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work is acquired by collectors and corporations, and has been published in books and periodicals.
To learn more visit: corinnelapincohen.com
