~ Where Tradition Meets Innovation ~
~ Where Tradition Meets Innovation ~
Ed Letven has spent a lifetime of creative exploration, painting on-location in Bucks County PA, the Brandywine area of Delaware, New England, Florida and abroad. His paintings convey a powerful modern impressionistic style that is clearly his own. In 2001, Mr. Letven was honored with a retrospective show of his watercolors at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia where he is an alumnus of the mid fifties. Since 2005, Mr. Letven has now expanded his fine art activities to include oils. Ever since he graduated from the University of the Arts in 1954 with a degree in advertising design, he has dreamed of spending his days outdoors with paper and a paint box. 'But in those days,' he recalls, 'it was hard to make a living as a fine artist.' In 1968, be founded an advertising and public relations firm, which became one of the ten largest in this area. Over the course of three decades, he built a successful career, earning enough money to quit advertising in 1998 at the age of 64. His wife, Sheila, who helped him establish his advertising agency, is also a successful multimedia artist and printmaker. It was she who encouraged her husband to return to fine art. Today, they each have their own, separate studios in their Meadowbrook, Montgomery County home. Chestnut Hill Gallery is thrilled to represent Ed in the Philadelphia area.
