Veronica L. Kortz returned to the world of Fine Art with the New Millennium even though her interest in Art was fostered and encouraged beginning in the 8th grade. One of her high school accomplishments was when one of her works of a paper mosaic portrait was selected to travel the world in an international student show. She was fortunate enough to attend one summer the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. Veronica graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Art Education from the University of the Americas.
Art has always been part of her life, from ceramics, stain glass, home design and decorating. She moved from Fine Arts to Language Arts and received her M.S. in Reading Education from CSUF. She currently balances both interests as Reading Specialist at Rio Hondo College and Long Beach City College and Art Instructor at Fullerton Senior Center and La Habra Community Center through North Orange County Community College District.
Veronica's artwork now has taken resurgence in two forms, one being large studio works and the other plein aire (French term for open air or outdoors) studies with her oil paintings being free and expressive, in addition to some works in watercolors, pastels and pencil,depicting her favorite places or special people throughout her travels. They are focused in the moment and most completed on location or in a single day to capture the immediacy of the single experience of mood, color reflections of time and space. Each Painting captures a precious time in history never to be the same again. The process is exciting, there is high energy flowing in her brush strokes, beautiful color harmony and strong composition in her work.
