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Arielle Dugue is a young female artist born in the United States to Haitian parents and resides in Long Island. She has her Associates in Fine Arts from Nassau Community College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from LIU Post in May 2016.

 

Arielle has had a love for art ever since she was four years old. At the age of nine, she attended Pratt Institute and Art Student League in Manhattan to enhance her skills. What inspires her to be an artist is that she is free to use her creative gift to share with others and enjoy the process of exploring the various ways of making art.

 

Arielle was heavily involved in her previous church’s artwork for Vacation Bible School where she did all artistic work for the stage. She was doing this for about ten years. Arielle has sold over 30 pieces of artwork. Some of those works were portraits. A couple of her artworks have been displayed at the Lakeview Public Library, Uniondale Public Library, Huntington Arts Council, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, just to name a few. She has also done paintings for people as a gift. One example is two of her childhood close friends were getting married on the same day and year but in different locations. One lived in Kansas and the other lived in London. Since she couldn’t attend any of them, she decided to do a surprise portrait of both of her friends with their fiancés. Her friends adored the gifts and were very happy and emotional about her generosity.

 

In 2012, Nassau County had an Artist Competition in memory of victims of Hurricane Sandy. Arielle felt the compassion to do a work of art that captured what her fellow Long Island neighbors had went through because some of those residents who lost their home were residing at Nassau Community College’s gym building as an evacuation shelter when she attended the college. She created a painting with a use of acrylic and some mixed media. The painting captured the beginning of how the storm started, the wreckage it caused, the different families and animals it affected, the rescue team rescuing the residence. She named this particular piece of work “From Darkness To Light: Sandy Relief” because there is always hope. Her artwork was chosen as one of the finalist in the competition and was displayed in several exhibits throughout Nassau County.

 

Arielle’s preference for paint medium is acrylic. She continually finds ways to incorporate different objects or other medium into her work such as shells, beads, human hair, foil, thread and much more. Most of her inspirations are from artists Thomas Kinkade, Norman Rockwell, Liz Lou, and Yulia Brodskaya just to name a few. These artists drive her to push herself more to create art that are unique and eye catching. Since art has been her passion, Arielle’s goal is to take her artistic talents and use it do freelance work such as portraits, paint nights, digital art, and design logos for individuals and businesses in need.