Artist: Angie Falstrom

Angie Falstrom resides in the rural town of Lyme, CT, an area whose bucolic beauty has been attracting artists for generations. She finds much of her inspiration for painting there. Specializing in miniature watercolors, she captures the spiritual quality that light and atmosphere bring to the scene whether the subject is a landscape or a beautifully constructed still life.

As part of the Griswold House Restoration Project, Falstrom had the challenge of recreating a coat of arms that was painted on the fireplace in the house's historic dining room by Lyme Art Colony member Willard Metcalf around 1903. The crest was destroyed in the 1940s when the fireplace was changed to demonstrate an early 19th century open hearth kitchen. Using a description from a 1930s article in The Day newspaper, along with historic photographs from the Museum's own collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Falstrom pieced together all the elements to recreate the fanciful coat-of-arms.

In 2004 Angie received the 2nd Place Still Life Award at the 71st International Exhibition of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C. She has received more than two hundred commissions in her career. Her work is in public and private collections in the Eastern United States, including that of Timothy Mellon, Connecticut Congressman Rob Simmons, and Jeffrey Andersen, Director of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme. In 1997 she illustrated the children’s book Helping Billy Bluebird by Mary Ellen Caruso, and she is currently collaborating with the author on a new book. Angie received her bachelor’s degree in art, with a minor in art history, from Connecticut College in New London. She is a member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society, the Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravors Society of Washington, D.C., and the Lyme Art Association, where she is an Elected Artist Member and has served on the Board of Directors.

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