Author. Painter. Poet. Social Visionary. Environmental Activist. Adele Seronde came from a long line of painters, weavers, woodworkers, and poets. Her family had always been central to her life.
Throughout her career, she studied under Karl Knaths at the Phillips Museum in Washington D.C. and Bennington College in Vermont. Painting mostly abstract landscapes in oil on canvas, Adele had numerous solo exhibitions in this country and in Italy at the Vigna Nuova Gallery in Florence.
Her style of painting is quite unique; Adele did not use an easel. She preferred, instead, to lay the canvas flat on the ground, often placing additional canvases around it, expanding the painting with a breadth and depth as only she could do.
As the founder of ‘Gardens for Humanity’ (1996), Adele’s latest works focued on the gardens that she loved so much. She saw the garden as both a symbolic way and an actual way of changing and healing our selves, our communities, and our planet.
“My mission is to wake people up to the beauty of our Earth, to fill them with curiosity to learn about the diverse and fascinating habits and customs of all living creatures and their habitats. It is about how to love and to know how much we all need each other.” – Adele Seronde