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Vera Campion
Artist from United States
Born in London during the V1 and V2 missile bombings of WWII, I spent my formative years in a beautiful, small village outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia. We made our home in my grandparent’s summer villa where my father converted the garden, in part, to grow fruits and vegetables. We kept chickens and rabbits. We gathered mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, and pine cones. We harvested firewood from dead trees in the nearby forests for cooking fires and to stay warm. In many ways it was idyllic. Fortuitously, the villa was classified as a family house by the Communists and we were allowed to retain it. We lived simply but well under the rather stressful circumstances of the Communist regime. Our ‘capitalist west’ connections helped us to survive and thrive.
After my college years at the University of Prague, I was drawn back to London to experience it as an adult. Then – yearning to become a United States citizen – I made Manhattan my home. It was as if I’d lived here be
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Vera Campion
Artist from United States
Born in London during the V1 and V2 missile bombings of WWII, I spent my formative years in a beautiful, small village outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia. We made our home in my grandparent’s summer villa where my father converted the garden, in part, to grow fruits and vegetables. We kept chickens and rabbits. We gathered mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, and pine cones. We harvested firewood from dead trees in the nearby forests for cooking fires and to stay warm. In many ways it was idyllic. Fortuitously, the villa was classified as a family house by the Communists and we were allowed to retain it. We lived simply but well under the rather stressful circumstances of the Communist regime. Our ‘capitalist west’ connections helped us to survive and thrive.
After my college years at the University of Prague, I was drawn back to London to experience it as an adult. Then – yearning to become a United States citizen – I made Manhattan my home. It was as if I’d lived here be
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Flowers Say NO to War
Mixed media by Vera Campion
38 x 27.5 cm • Acrylic on paper, Ink on paper
Location:
New York, United States
It is hard to believe, that we, civilized people, still engage in war. There does not seem any lesson that has ever been learnt.
This is a collage of acrylic painted paper and India ink painted rice paper. You can see on the detail that I sometime cut very small pieces to convey reality. The back shows that I do not use flat surface to attach pieces to but instead attach one cut out piece to another until my collage grows to a finished artwork.
Location:
New York, United States
About the artist
Vera Campion
Artist from United States
Born in London during the V1 and V2 missile bombings of WWII, I spent my formative years in a beautiful, small village outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia. We made our home in my grandparent’s summer villa where my father converted the garden, in part, to grow fruits and vegetables. We kept chickens and rabbits. We gathered mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, and pine cones. We harvested firewood from dead trees in the nearby forests for cooking fires and to stay warm. In many ways it was idyllic. Fortuitously, the villa was classified as a family house by the Communists and we were allowed to retain it. We lived simply but well under the rather stressful circumstances of the Communist regime. Our ‘capitalist west’ connections helped us to survive and thrive.
After my college years at the University of Prague, I was drawn back to London to experience it as an adult. Then – yearning to become a United States citizen – I made Manhattan my home. It was as if I’d lived here be
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