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Artist Biography
When Kulia grew up in New York in her formative years, she studied at the Arts Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Adelphi University, and College at Old Westbury with many distinguished art professors. The old Masters, such as Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Monet, and Dali were always great inspiration as to this very day. The fantastic Art Revival on Molokai where contemporary artists like Stan Ort and prolific turn of the 20th century artists such as Paul Gauguin and Georgia O’Keefe inspired her to immerse herself in art after studying the Hawaiian Language and culture while raising her Native Hawaiian son Ola Kahiko Kamako Sy Selwyn DuDoit who is currently enlisted in the US Army to fight terrorism his lifelong goal.
The bright colors reflected of the flora, sea, and mountains as well as the moody and cloudy volcanic matter with windswept days are depicted in Maui and Molokai paintings. Being very much a naturalist, she spent her early college years as an Environmental Activist thus more recently lived in the country in Maui and Molokai for over twenty years in rural areas where no stoplights, supermarkets, or franchises exist. She spent many years as a permaculturist, painting on an organic flower farm while raising her son as a single parent.
Currently, Kulia Selwyn has been selected as an Art Fusion Galleries Artist in the upcoming January 2017 exhibition, “Ever Changing Spectrums”. Kulia's participation in this upcoming exhibition is very appropriate for the work, especially since this gallery has been selected by the American Art Awards Association as the Top Gallery in Florida for Emerging to Mid-Career Artists in 2015 and 2016. The two recent collections that Kulia has created, "Guardian Angeli of Italia" and "Windows of Italia Renaissance", are inspired by an Eat, Pray, Love trip to Italia where she submerged herself in the daily lives of the Italiano in a quest to view the art old and new while painting en plain aire. Iconic figures from Botticelli and DaVinci are placed into impressionist landscapes with abstract elements.
A gallery artist for many years, Kulia has shown in galleries throughout Hawaii and Florida where she now resides to live close to family. She is still recognized on the Maui Artist web site and has exhibited in the Vero Beach Museum.
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