Earlayne Chance has been painting for over thirty years and it shows. Earlayne Chance is a lecturer, a juror, and a full time professional artist. Her primary medium is oil, but she has expertise in many areas.

Chance's father was in the military and this gave young Earlayne an opportunity to travel and take art lessons and workshops through museums abroad. She returned to the United States to attend college at Southwest Texas and the University of Texas. Other studies included classes with Ray Vinella and Kevin Macpherson of Taos, New Mexico and Clyde Aspevig of Loveland, Colorado.

In 1994, Earlayne's work was chosen for an exhibition with the Salmagundi Club in New York. Recently she was discovered by Ray Greenberg Art Publishing who now produces her fine art prints and distributes her work nationally.

"Everything around me inspires me", says Earlayne, "Whether it is a garden, a field of bluebonnets, or a wildlife scene that I am painting, I paint because I have to. It is what I love to do." Expressionistic and vibrant, Chance's work has a distinctive, romantic mood about it that is recognizable from any point of view....a "misty" morning look that beckons one to dream about lying in the bluebonnets or gazing up to clouds above.

Chance captures most of her garden scenes on location while doing small "field studies", then produces the larger works from her studio southwest of Austin. Recently elected to associate membership in the Oil Painters of America, Chance is also an active member of the Texas Wild Bunch. She has exhibited in numerous group and one - woman shows and hangs in several prestigious permanent collections. And, in the midst of all this activity, Earlayne still finds time to work on her book, "Painting From the Heart".