​The Happy Medium Books Cafe

Art Exhibition 
By Stephanie Pyren
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"The Way I See It" Fine Art Collection​

"The Happy Medium" Art Exhibition

​Exhibitions Dates:  Jun 9th - Sep 8th, 2025
​at the
Happy Medium Books Cafe,
2724 Park St, Riverside. Jacksonville, Fl 32205
Mon - Sat 10am-6pm  *  Sun 10am-4pm
​Reception Details:  Sunday Jul 20th, 2-4 P.M. 
Don't miss this enthralling exhibition by renowned Animator, Writer, and Fine Artist, Stephanie Pyren.
​​For more information about this event and a list of other events please visit the Happy Medium Books and Cafe website. (Scroll down to see the online gallery)

"The Way I See It"   Art Exhibition
    by Stephanie Pyren

Stephanie Pyren of Jacksonville has wide-ranging talents. Working in oils, watercolors, pastels, and graphics, she has exhibited in France, Thailand, Holland, and throughout the United States.
In 1989, artist Jacques Harvey invited her to France to help re-create the famous “Barbizon School.” Her mural depicting the village of Barbizon has pride of place in a local restaurant, Le Royal. The American Animation Co. asked her to travel to Bangkok to teach background painting for “Tiny Toons” by Warner Bros. After her return to France, Pyren and her husband moved to California at the request of Warner Bros.’ licensing division. Jacksonville, Florida, is their current home and an endless source of inspiration for Pyren’s art.
Pyren was born in Pennsylvania but moved to California at age 10. It was there that she began her artistic career, winning many awards and honors. She earned a bachelor’s degree of fine arts from California State University at Northridge while working as a fashion illustrator and animation artist. She has illustrated four children’s books and worked in major animation studios in Los Angeles as a character designer and background painter. She has also taught life drawing, fashion illustration, and window display at Columbia College in South Carolina.

Intrigued by patterns and the flow of garments, Pyren says her early work was influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and the Old Masters. “I am constantly studying the masters’ techniques of duplicating fabrics, the never-ending study of human anatomy, as well as the body in motion stemming from my early animation career and love of dance, one of the oldest forms of human connection,” she says.
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Her energetic and haunting current figurative work, influenced by movement and dance, explores mankind’s spirit and connection to the elements of the natural world. She hopes her creations “evoke emotions, questions, love of life, and a spiritual connection for all who view them.”
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Stephanie's Gallery of Works on Display at Happy Medium

Click on any item below to find out more about it. All pieces are for sale online. If you purchase a piece please show your receipt and Id to the Bookstore staff and you can pickup your piece.