Samantha French’s poolscapes shimmer and vibrate with patterned segments of intense color and barely paused, floating movement. This is achieved with the distinctive combination of appearing absolutely real to the eye while being a very obvious quilt of painted pigment on canvas. French manages to convey playfulness and the eternally exuberant freedom of summer, the cool loosening from the heavy world around us of heat and gravity, slipping into a sparkling dream. these paintings are emotionally and physically both buoyant an joyous.

Samantha French graduated from the Minneapolis college of Art and Design in 2005. These days find her recreating the tranquility and nostalgia of those lost summer days from her Hudson Valley studio or working on large scale outdoor murals. French actively exhibits her paintings and is included in many private and public collections internationally and nationally, while her work has garnered extensive press. Samantha was most recently honored with solo and group exhibitions at the Myrtle Beach Art Museum, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.