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Artist Camilla Webster Is Leading the Revolution of Arts & Culture in Palm Beach and Giving Back
About Camilla Webster Artist, Altruist, Author, Adventurer
Webster has her master’s degree in History of Art and Modern History from the University of St Andrew’s in Scotland. committed in the midst Remaining has also ofShe lockdown, Webster forged ahead studied at The inSlade 2020 with her solo museum School of Fine Art in exhibit, “Every Painting Tells a Story,” London and curated by White House Fellow The Art author Studentsand artist Bruce Helander in New atLeague the award-winning Coral Springs York. Like of Art in South Florida. Museum artist Helen
Packing a surprisingly virtual punch, Webster was soon invited to host opening exhibits at the new City Hall in Palm Beach Gardens and the Frankenthaler, Webster attended The Brearley School. launch of Haven, a design experience Camilla is an accomplished author, lecturer, and philanthropist. talk Royal “Art in Front of elebrated, museum collectedHer TEDx on Poinciana Way. A strong finale You” attracted thousandsartist, of views,Camilla as she spoke on the calming of art in everyday life. Webster, hassensation to the season was the selection of two of She is also the co-author of the bestselling award-winning book, “The Seven Pearls of Financial made a meaningful impact Webster’s works for The Kips Bay Decorator Wisdom: A Woman’s Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power.” on the art scene, both locally Show House room, “Parlor Games: by Raised between the US and the UK, Webster has exhibited in the galleriesBenjamin and given art Deaton. talks by and nationally, throughout Garnering the most special invitation in Miami, London, Paris and New York. To find out more about Camilla and pandemic. attention, that room and her painting made her works please visit, https://camillawebsterart.com/ ### the cover of Veranda Magazine’s “Inside the The artist, whose work is described as 2021 Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House.” Media Contact: narrative The Webster art book of her museum show Kelly O’Shea at KOPR abstraction with a world class Kelly@KellyoPR.com sense of color, is becoming synonymous “Camilla Webster, Coral Springs Museum of (917) 685-4515 with Palm Beach. Like artist Donald Judd Art” was the #1 best seller in Palm Beach, who immortalized Marfa, Texas or David and is now in its third edition and available Hockney’s Los Angeles, the joyful spiritual on Amazon. nature of her work is like a declaration for the soul. The power of joy for beauty in our midst Her luminous and graceful style soon caught is a lifelong mission for the former international the attention of Discover The Palm Beaches journalist. From the Iraq war to the power and PCMA, who invited her to represent the beach mecca with her lauded talk, “The Camilla Webster “Love from Palm Art of the Pivot,” alongside fellow keynote Beach” 2020, Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 40” Thomas Friedman of The New York Times. brokers of Davos, and the financial titans of Her conversation inspired the audience to Wall Street, shift their focus “more on what you can Webster was an observer on conflict, crisis, create, than your perception of what you capitalism and the human condition before have lost”. Webster is now the featured she picked up the paint brush. artist for Discover The Palm Beaches. The commercial success of this stirring artist has Trading in skyscrapers and the bustling been groundbreaking, with 30 paintings sold newsroom for her artist studio at Mana in recent months to collectors in New York, Contemporary in New York, Webster then Los Angeles and more. As the world removed to Palm Beach to take advantage energizes, Webster has settled into her new of the light, swaying palm trees and the sunlit studio one block south of The Norton burgeoning art scene. Museum of Art, where she currently sits on
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the Young Friends Acquisition Council At the height of the pandemic in March 2020, the artist and devoted community organizer rallied creative leaders to form The Art Altruist and host a sale at Hindman Auctions. $22,000 was raised with a mission to support artists from crisis to recovery. Webster additionally donated $25,000 in paintings to Cancer Alliance, Place of Hope and The Ocean Reef Community Foundation. All of these works have sold. Webster has exhibited at Art Basel Miami annually and multiple art fairs since her arrival in Florida in 2017; in addition to Scope, The Edition Hotel, The Sagamore Hotel, Mercedes Benz and a Nexus private yacht member’s experience, she was also a speaker at Art Palm Beach’s Power Talks sessions. About Camilla Webster Artist, Altruist, Author, Adventurer Webster has her master’s degree in History of Art and Modern History from the University of St Andrew’s in Scotland. She has also studied at The Slade School of Fine Art in London and The Art Students League in New York. Like artist Helen Frankenthaler, Webster attended The Brearley School. Camilla is an accomplished author, lecturer, and philanthropist. Her TEDx talk “Art in Front of You” attracted thousands of views, as she spoke on the calming sensation of art in everyday life. She is also the co-author of the bestselling award-winning book, “The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom: A Woman’s Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power.” Raised between the US and the UK, Webster has exhibited in galleries and given art talks by special invitation in Miami, London, Paris and New York. To find out more about Camilla and her works please visit, https:// camillawebsterart.com/
