November Gallery Exhibition Opening Reception
November 2 | 2:00-4:00pm
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Free and open to the public
Since moving to Cascade Head 4 years ago, all of my landscape paintings have been based on this area. My intention is to capture in color and share the sublime, some may say transcendent, landscape of the Biosphere Reserve.
Of the four themes I have been working with, two of them are in this show: Vibration of Light, and Sitka Portraits.
The Vibration of Light series are my sensory experiences. They are about standing on the edge of a huge open space, seeing and feeling the light that falls on the landscape and illuminates the atmosphere. This light is vibrating with energy.
I have employed a “broken color” technique first used by the impressionists to elicit the feeling of the vibration. Broken color is a breaking up of a field of color into patches or spots so that the color looks more intense. And it is the post-impressionists, such a Seurat and Signac, who explored this technique most famously. For the most part, the paint is applied opaquely to reflect as much light as possible to the viewer.
The Sitka Portraits are very much like figures. Just as people acquire character with age, each of these Sitkas has a unique personality from a pose they grew into decades ago.
I especially like the way they reach out, reaching out on long limbs or short broken stubs of branches, all this is evidence of their long lives, and reflects the history of the storms they have weathered. As the Sitkas reach out for light and moisture, and dance in the wind, to me they symbolize our need as humans to reach out to be in connection to everything and everyone in our lives.
About the Artist
I’m a 3rd generation Oregonian, who studied art at the University of Oregon and then at the San Francisco Art Institute. While attending SFAI I began my lifetime relationship to landscape painting in oils.
In 1979 I started making oil colors in my garage and founded Gamblin Artists Colors in 1980. My painting practice influenced color making, color making influenced my painting. Through the work of being a painter and paint-maker I became a colorist, one who communicates primarily through color rather than with line or form. And I have exhibited this work in galleries since 1997.
My primary mentors were David Foster at the University of Oregon in the late 1960’s, and Wolf Kahn in New York and Vermont in the 1990’s.
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center Art Gallery is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
