Phyllis Chase
A graduate of Smith College with a BA, Phyllis Chase has always known she wanted to be an artist. In addition to her undergraduate work, she has studied at 
The Art Students' League in New York City under the tutelage of Frank Mason. Even with this extensive formal background, she considers herself a self - taught painter.
Her childhood heroes were John James Audubon and Claude Monet. She was thrilled by the concept of painting, and excited by the idea of being outside and in the light, closely observing nature and color. As her education broadened, she fell in love with the French Impressionists, and the American Impressionists, John Singer Sargent and the Italian Colorists, particularly Tintoretto and Veronese.
"Painting is the most engaging, transporting thing I do.
"I have the idea that I want to chronicle, in a romantic and intimate way, how we live, in addition to the landscape we live in."
Her love of plein air painting has transported Phyllis all over Vermont, and also to Ireland, Italy, Colorado, Santa Fe, and Boston, where she captures the color and feeling of being in those places.
Phyllis Chase's work has hung in The Vermont Statehouse, and in galleries throughout Vermont, and in Dublin, Ireland. She presently lives and works in Maple Corner, Calais, Vermont.