Ambassador of the Week: Stefan Bleekrode

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Kelly Kane
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Bleekrode painted “Landscape near Mestia” (2024, watercolor, 12 x 14 1/2 in.) from a field near the town of Mestia in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia.

Best known for his intricate, detailed ink drawings of cities seen from a bird’s-eye perspective, Stefan Bleekrode (b. 1986) turns to watercolor to capture the scenery, light, and colors he encounters when traveling. Entirely self taught, he has been working as a full-time artist since 2012, when his first show in Switzerland sold out in two days. Since then, his work has been featured at art fairs, in galleries throughout Europe, and also in two museum shows.

“The sun went down so quickly I had very little time — less than an hour —to paint “Florence Twilight” (2023, watercolor, 10 3/4 x 14 in.), a quickly brushed panorama of Florence, Italy, as seen from the Piazzale Michelangelo,” he says.
“I painted “San Giorgio at Sunrise” (2023, watercolor, 7 x 10 in.) in Venice at the same spot where William Turner painted his famous watercolor of the same subject in 1819,” says the artist. “Even the weather and colors were the same.”

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