About the Artist

Constance Belle Fisher (CB)

I am a Clarke County Virginia & Shenandoah Valley artist and have lived in rural Northern Virginia for over 40 years. Born in the foothills of Western Pennsylvania, I was named after my great grandmother, Jane Belle Poe, whose father was a second cousin of Edgar Allen Poe, and after my mother’s grandmother, Constance, who came to this country with fifteen children from Belgium.

Having an instinctive interest and affinity for creative artistic expression, my natural ability and talent was evident from early childhood and in the fourth grade, I received a scholarship to attend classes at the Carnegie-Mellon College of Fine Arts. I studied at the Carnegie until my family moved to Baltimore where I continued my studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I also attended the Community College of Baltimore, Towson University and Johns Hopkins University where I worked as an Assistant Illustrator in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. I have traveled abroad including Australia and France and was thrilled to visit the home & gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny. I studied with many, many fine artists over the years and value the support and encouragement they provided for my own artistic journey.