About Fleur Palau

Fleur Palau is an American artist, trained in both New York and Florence, Italy. Fleur has lived and worked in Italy for over 20 years where she maintains a home and working studio. She is currently living in New Hampshire, USA and is known for her work in landscape painting, rabbit theme, and stone carving.

Fleur is currently represented by Coastside Gallery, Mendicino, CA, Mill Brook Gallery, Concord, NH, and the Family Tree Gallery, Portsmouth, NH.

Exhibitions

1977 Allied Artists’ Society, National Academy Galleries, NYC
Audubon Artists’ Society, National Academy Galleries, NYC
National Academy Gallery’s 52nd Annual Show, NYC
1978 Audubon Artists’ Society, National Academy Galleries, NYC
1979 Exhibition, Fornel Gallery, NYC
1980 Exhibition, Carrara Fine Arts Gallery, Carrara, Italy
1981 Annual Exhbition, Museum of Modern Art, Forte dei Marmi, Italy, (cataloge)
Commemorative Medallion Exhibition of the city of Udine, Udine. (cataloge)
1982 Versilia Show of Foreign Artists Living Abroad, Pietasanta, Italy. (Cataloge)
Annual Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
1983 Salamagundi Club Annual Sculpture Exhibition, NYC
Pen and Brush Club Annual Sculpture Exhibition, NYC
Solo Exhibition, Lincoln Savings Bank, NYC
1984 Pen and Brush Club Annual Sculpture Exhibition, NYC
1985 Audubon Artists’ Society Annual Sculpture Exhibition, NYC
1986 Pen and Brush Club Annual Sculpture Exhibition, NYC
1987 Solo Exhibition, Ward Lawrence Gallery, NYC
1988 The Young and the beautiful II: Young Masters, Ingber Gallery, NYC
1989 Nature/Abstraction, Ten Worlds Gallery, NYC
1990 Lynda Anderson Gallery, Oyster Bay, NY
1992 Il Marmo, La Scuola, La Scultura, Sant’Agostino Museum, Pietrasanta, Italy (cataloge)
1993 Lynda Anderson Gallery, NY
1994 Marmi al Forte, Forte dei Marmi, Italy (cataloge)
1995 Invitational Group Exhibition, St. Bartolo, Querceta , Italy
1996 Exhibition, Gabriel’s Gallery, Hiram, Ohio
1997 Annual Competition, Torre del lago, Italy (prize winner)
1998 Café della Pace, Solo exhibition, NYC
1999 Arringini Gallery, Italy
1999 Galleria Scuderie dei Borboni, Camaiore, Italy
2000 Exhibition, Humanities Foundation, Milan, Italy
2000 Margutiana Exhibition, Forte dei Marmi, Italy (cataloge)
2000 Studi Aperti, Pietrasanta, Italy
2000 Premio di Pittura, Villa Gori, Stiava, Italy
2000 Salmagundi Club, NYC (prize winner)
2001 Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
2001 Orlando Gallery, Forte Dei Marmi, Italy
2002 Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona, Group Exhibition
2004 The Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH - Solo exhibition, June
2004 Family Tree Gallery, Portsmouth, NH - Solo exhibition, July
2004 Libby Museum, Wolfeboro, NH - Solo exhibition

Awards

1984 Honourable Mention, National Sculpture Society Youth
Awards Competition for Professional Sculptors under the age of 35, NYC
Excalibur Award, Pen and Brush Club, NYC
1985 Katherine T. Hobson Memorial Award, Pen and Brush Club, NYC
1999 The AAPL Medal of Honour American Artists Professional League, Salamagundi Club, NYC


Symposiums, Workshops, Lectures

1987 Columbia University, NYC, Guest lecturer on Restoration Techniques
1991 Nassau Community College, NY, Guest lecturer, “Carving Marble in Italy
1995-96 Participant: Annual Contemporary Symposium of Marble Carving in Seravezza, Italy
1996 Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation, Instructor, marble carving techniques.
1997 Rosyln Art Group, NY, techniques in clay modeling
1997-2004 Workshops in landscape painting, Italy
2004 Laconia Art Association, guest lecturer, art history, Laconia, NH

Publications – Feature Articles

ARTISTS LIVING ABROAD: sculpture in Versilia, 1982 cat. for Exhibition, pub.
Commune di Pietrasanta
NATIONAL SCULPTURE REVIEW, 1984 summer edition (photo)
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SCULPTORS, 1984, Apollo pub.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, restoration of Bethesda Terrace, October 13, 1984 and
July 30 1985 (photo)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIVING ARTISTS IN AMERICA, 1987
ART SPEAK, February 1988, exploring stylistic sensibilities by Women
THE NEW YORK ART REVIEW, 1988, 1987, American References (photo)
LA NAZIONE, 1995 August
IL TIRRENO, 1995 August
ARTE CULTURA, 1998 August
SETTIMANA D’ARTE DELLA VERSILIA, 1999 August
GRANITE STATE NEWS, September, 2003
AMERICAN MOTHERS MAGAZINE, 2003 - Cover photograph
SUN CITIES INDEPENDENT, May 28, 2003, “Museums Exhibit Reveals Form,’ Arizona.

Museum collections

MUSEO SANT’AGOSTINO, Pietrasanta, Italy
MUSEO DEL’CARTA, Pesca, Italy

Museum Exhibitions

West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona, 2003

Member

New Hampshire Art Association, 2003

Represented by

Coastside Gallery, Mendicino, CA
Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Family Tree Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH