Arthur Levi Rainville and Anne Clay's Bio

About our Instructors:
ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API

“Just as Robert Henri is to painters,
so is Arthur Rainville to photographers –
the Poet Lauréate of Photography.”
-Darrell Chitty, Louisiana.

ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API has worked out of his decorous studio in historic Whitinsville, Massachusetts for 40 years. He is widely known for his soft, muted, granular color work. Refinements of this life’s passion lead to his lyrical, quixotic Mansuesco style of today. Defying a definable formula, Mansuesco, much like Impressionism, is a plurality of looks. An innate quality of light coupled with a compositional choreography is akin to his signature style. In a one-man show at the French Cultural Center, his work was astutely referred to as “…a synthesis of observation and imagination blended with a palette of gauzy colors.” Returning photographic portraiture to a high art form is his muse.
Arthur has taught portraiture professionally on three continents, inspiring the budding or seasoned photographer for 25 years - he has launched many notable photographers of our time.
He is a prolific author with three published books on the Creative Spirit and numerous articles yearly in national magazines. Besides being a noted touring lecturer he has Fine Art work being shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Having been called… ‘one of photography’s premier creative minds’… he currently offers private consultations and enrichment workshops throughout the Americas and European destinations.

His time is devoted and divided between personal portrait commissions, private consultancy and education and his on-going experiential art studies.

To view imagery go to: www.studiorainville.com


ANNE CLAY

ANNE CLAY has been a force in the art scene for over 25 years.

With roots in graphic design, she evolved into the decorative arts as a Muralist with paintings on display throughout the northeast. Collectors countrywide have avidly sought her beguiling ‘folk art’ work. As an educator, she designed and led creativity programs for college students in the US and Canada that focused on innovative performance art.

Anne currently operates a thriving portrait studio in Apex, North Carolina specializing in women’s portraits. She is widely known for her ‘Over The Moon’ Hollywood style imagery, peppered with a cutting-edge contemporary look.

With her fine art background, Anne has joined Arthur in developing and presenting ‘the Grace Project’ and other enrichment programs for artists and photographers nationwide.

Her portraiture can be seen at www.anneclay.com and her fine art work will be exhibited at www.leegerie.com.