Vicki has always been drawn to dragons and faeries, she believes since about the age of three, the same time she knew she was destined to be an Artist. Born in New Mexico, “The Land of Enchantment”, her Mom encouraged her to color outside the lines, while Dad took her to every art event she could enter…they always believed…

Her journey has always been in the arts, whether it was in owning a gallery in Silver City, New Mexico or teaching art to thousands of elementary students. Vicki has instructed teachers in how to use art in their curriculums, and taught at risk teenagers for a mural, entitled a Tapestry of Dragons & Unicorns, that has become a permanent exhibition at the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum in Las Vegas, NV where she now resides. She judged an international art competition for high school students, sponsored by Art Quotient Art Annual and has a degree as a graphic designer, but her life has come full circle as she has returned to her passion of creating her “Art of Enchantment, Faery & Myth”.

Two years ago, Vicki decided to expand her career and her images were licensed on paper products. With this in mind, she co-founded an online company, Women of the Myst, an artist marketing and networking site. Her next goal was to win the coveted Muse award given by ARTV. The program, a Golden Globe type event, the first of its kind, was held at the MGM Grand Hotel in 2005 and later broadcast on the BRAVO network. Out of fifty nominees, the first Muse award went to Vicki in the category “Drawing” for “Mermaid Moon Rising” and two of her pen and ink images. With her usual flair for the dramatic, Vicki took to the stage in shimmering Fairy Wings and a gown that looked as if it was spun from amethyst crystals. She is not an artist to sit on her laurels, and since then has been licensed on many additional items including, giftware and tiles. All of these experiences have brought her to this point, the publication of her first book, “How to Draw and Paint Dragons”, through Llewellyn Worldwide, release date 2008.

Her artwork is beautiful, romantic, even sensual. Then one looks closer at Vicki Visconti’s “Art of Enchantment, Faerie & Myth” and a whole world is discovered. An ancient world born of European ancestry and filled with wondrous visions of chivalry, light as air nymphs skipping through mist infused forests, ethereal fairies floating on gossamer wings, and dragons with brilliant purple and gold wings swooping over stark cliffs filled with knarly trees that seem to be born, not of earth, but of man. Celtic knots form the backdrop for a wayward nymph. There are faeries that hold keys seemingly to nothing and Dryads-women trees stand near waters that flow from streambeds of mystical beauty. The rich jeweled colors she uses add to the timelessness of the artwork, making them not about a single story, but more of universal emotion, such as joy, contentment, or satisfaction. These images come to Vicki through memories that may have been passed down through her very soul for centuries.

It is one thing to dream of magical realms of old, another to translate them into masterpieces of watercolor and oil, or sometimes pen & ink. Ms. Visconti does it, if not effortlessly, at least relatively so. She is a master illustrator with many book credits. The rich colors she uses in her paintings vibrate with emotion and are achieved by layering colored pencil and ink over watercolor, or glazing in oils. The layering is also representational of the connectivity we all share. She is comfortable working in any medium, including oils, though she reserves this medium for her large format pieces. We see the influences of her love of ancient history in her drawings and paintings. Although Vicki’s style is unique, her artwork has influences of her European ancestory, Celtic art and the Pre-Raphaelites, along with modern masters in her field including Brian Froud and Alan Lee.

Her talent is indisputable. Some how she transports herself, and therefore her viewers back in time. She brings us an encapsulated vision of a distant and archaic land where magic is real and Faeries and Dragons are friends to humankind. Whenever Vicki sketches or paints, her imagination leads her to forgotten realms. Vicki’s hope is that you too will be taken to another time, and another place, somewhere that “could have” or “has been”. A world long past when all living things were more intertwined. A place of Dragons and Enchantment… If one looks closely, a glance at out ancient collective past might be seen…

Debbie Sussman

Art Consultant

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