An Indiana Hoosier is an accomplished artist in various media and styles including non-representational and abstraction, but she prefers 'en plein aire' small oil paintings, working with light and shadow. She has illustrated a cookbook, a poetry book and is periodically an illustrator for an international professional essay journal. With two well-known local authors, she illustrated story books for Modesto's historical McHenry Mansion. As an associate member of Oil Painters of America, Chella has studied with national known artists, like I.Rice Pereira, Margo Hoff as well as California...more
