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Martha Saudek, a native Californian, began drawing and painting about the age of five. Later she studied art at Pomona and Scripps Colleges.  Following a career in public education, she returned to pursuing her art education at UCLA and the California Art Institute where she subsequently taught oil landscape painting classes.
Saudek’s work has been published in a number of art books including: Painting with Passion, by Carole Katchen; How to Paint Trees Flowers and Foliage, by Patricia Seligman; The Best of Flower Painting, edited by Katherine Kipp; How to Paint Water, by Patricia Seligman; Painting Shapes and Edges, by Hazel Harrison and Art of the American West, by Linscott and Christiansen-Dull.  Magazine articles about her work have appeared in Southwest Art, Art of the West, Revue Magazine, Topia, The Artists’ Magazine and Art News.
Saudek has won well over 150 prizes and awards in various local and national competitions including California Art Club exhibitions, the Artist’s Magazine’s landscape competition, the Arts for the Parks annual national competition in Jackson Hole, WY, in which she was a Region III winner (often placing in its Top 100 artists) and third place in the National Grumbacher Gold Medal competition.
Saudek is a signature member of the California Art Club, Oil Painters of America, Knickerbocher Artists, Allied Artists of America and is a founding and signature member of the American Academy of Women Artists.  Her work is included in various permanent collections including the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; the Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT; and the Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.  Other exhibitions include the Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ; Classic American Western Art Shows held at the Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and the Los Angeles, CA Natural History Museum; as well as in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C.; and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY.

Artist's Statement  for Sights of Inspiration Show

I have strong reverence for nature, God’s creations: flowers, mountains, the desert, trees, streams, pools, ocean, seashore, sky and fields – all of it!  Each has its own special beauty!
I try to capture the special spirit of the scene my soul responded to at first glimpse in all my oil paintings and hope that the viewer will share my sense of wonder and discovery.
I am especially drawn to paint water, as it is the giver of life, as well as scenes, which are peaceful.  I see no need to paint those aspects of life, which are depressing and ugly.  I hope that my art, in some small way, will add to the viewer’s serenity and appreciation of nature.
Martha Saudek