Ed Chesnovitch, a Cape Cod based artist, is a graduate of the
Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and has studied extensively at The Art
Students League of New York, and the Cape Cod School of Art,
Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is a juried elected Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America in Gramercy Park, New York City, and both a Signature Member and sits on the board as Vice President of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape
Cod. In 2012 his work received Honorable Mention in the top 100
pastelist’s in the magazine publication Pastel Journal. His work is
also included in the new Deborah Forman book Contemporary Cape Cod
Artists: Images of Land and Sea (Schiffer Publishing 2013). Works
are included in both public and private collections throughout the
United States and Europe.

Ed is represented on Cape Cod by the Left Bank Gallery in Orleans.

Artist's Statement

Color & Light are the focus of my pastel paintings which evoke an
underlying current of energy, captured in nature, at extreme and
fleeting moments. My goal is to record the atmospheric conditions and
envelope of light with strong contrast values and graphic
compositions. I am not a detached observer, but rather a participant
expressing my profound feelings... this spiritual connection and
reverence to nature... and the wonder and beauty of the landscape
fascinates me endlessly.