Erica Prud'homme

Prud’homme’s work is driven by a strong connection to the natural world, its forms, colors and light. Some recent work has been portraits, but her newest focus is patterns: waves receding to the horizon, scales on a fish, the grains in wood.

Prud’homme was featured in Connecticut Magazine in 2008 where she was compared to Franz Marc, who sought “the organic rhythm of all things”. Geoffrey Young, in Art and the River, 2004, wrote: “Like brain coral, the mysterious organic look of her water is both convincingly wet and utterly abstract... we get an inkling of the power and otherness of nature.”

She lives and works in NYC and Litchfield County, CT. She works primarily in oil, starting with a pencil or watercolor sketch, but also uses pastel and charcoal for finished work. Prud’homme learned her craft from her father and uncle, Charles and Paul Child, and from studies at the Art Students League.