Light, Color & Creativity
June Ponte
Winner of the Saturday Visiter Award for Edgar Allan Poe Art from the
Poe Baltimore Museum.
One of the artist's earliest memories is being surrounded by her mother's sculptures and watercolors. As a young child who'd lost her mother at the age of seven, June began to have visions and metaphysical experiences that continued into adulthood.
Every Sunday morning, June's grandparents would take her to six o'clock mass at St. Michael's Monastery in Union City, NJ, where she was mesmerized by the richly colored and painted Victorian era stained glass windows, and fascinated by the huge antique mural of St. Michael slaying the devil. The young artist was lost in a daydream of color, light, and the sound of the choir.
June briefly attended Jersey City State College and the School of Visual Arts; she is mainly self-taught. Years later, the artist's skills and spiritual experiences flourished through the study of painting and spiritual mediumship.
Ponte creates portraits of historic figures, Gothic painted stained glass windows, unique stained glass lamps, and candle holders. The artist has blended her esoteric vision with her love of colored glass and painting.
June Ponte's artwork has appeared in the Now Gallery, NYC, Window Box Gallery, NYC, True Fakes Gallery, NYC, O-Roe Electric Art Space, Hoboken, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, the Sussex County Arts and Heritage Gallery in Newton, NJ, Skylands Gallery in Wantage, NJ, The ARTery Gallery in Milford, PA. and others. The artist was recognized for her creative achievements by her hometown of Union City, NJ, in 2014. The SCAD Museum of art in Savannah has purchased two of Ponte's paintings.
June is the owner of Poe and Raven Gallery, 4731 RT 447, Canadensis, PA., and the author and illustrator of nine children’s craft books, published by Enslow Publishers.
