PLANTATION INN ( Ocho Rios Jamaica) This 63-room hideaway, styled like an old plantation mansion, was used in the filming of Prelude to a Kiss, starring Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. The property offers plenty of activities. Rooms have large private balconies. I was commissioned in 1980 to create 12 original watercolors for the Plantation […]
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This restaurant commissioned me to do several original watercolors for the restaurant walls.
Continue readingPlantation Inn Resort, Ocho Rios
Plantation Inn Resort commissioned me to paint several original oil paintings for their restaurant and interior bar of their beautiful resort. I was then also commissioned to paint a series of small watercolors for other areas of their property.
Continue readingBook – The Message of the White Unicorn
Fall of 1979 I wrote and illustrated my 2nd childrens book called “The Message Of the White Unicorn”. It is a tale of a unicorn named Nimra who goes off on a walk and enters a world where he communicates with the nature kingdom and learns the wisdom of life from the flowers and rivers and animals. A […]
Continue readingCommissioned Oil Paintings for Club Caribbean – St Anns Bay, Jamaica West Indies
Club Caribbean owners and I met in Coconut Grove, where the family flew me down to create an 12ft x 10ft original oil painting for their lobby wall. After working and completing it in one month I was again commissioned by the Hotel to paint a Market Scene again in oils on a canvas that […]
Continue readingPrize Award: 1979 Beaux Arts Festival, Miami, FL
I was awarded a Prize Award at the 1979 Beaux Arts Festival, Miami, FL. The show was held on the grounds of the University of Miami, by the Lowe Art Museum.
Continue readingArt Festival – 1977 Key West Florida
I moved to Key West in 1972 leaving Manhattan behind. This was where my journey of discovery began. Painting and getting out there showing my work at art festival. After 5 years of learning, seeing, painting and more it was time to soon leave. This was the last of the street festivals in Key West Florida for awhile. That […]
Continue readingFirst Place: 1974 Key West Art Festival, Key West FL
The Key West Art Center 301 Front Street opened its 1974-75 season with a reception for members and their friends this past Sunday, November 3 and introduced an extraordinary excellent Juried Show. Under the Classification of Mixed Media winners were: First Place, “Paradisio” by Eileen Seitz A beautifully executed painting with tonal values showing the […]
Continue readingMartello Towers Art Award Exhibition
The words they described for my artwork are An inspiration found in the beautiful paintings of Eileen Seitz, a remarkably talented realist with an almost incredible gift for simply amazing composition. “Ms Seitz likes “Mexican” colors, .e. warm magentas, pinks, reds, yellows, oranges, ocher and a fine assortment of blues and greens. She achieves an […]
Continue readingCommission work – Street Scenes Key West Architecture
From 1972 – 1977 I lived in Key West Florida. I did a great many pen and ink illustrations of the Old Bahamian Wood architecture . People loved the way I drew and in those days I did it all free hand. No pencil and no ruler.. I made my living doing these black and […]
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