France Gallery ~ American Heartland Landscape Paintings: Calico Cat & Old Red Barn Landscape Painting

"I shut my eyes in order to see." Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles
(1915 - 1985)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. " Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

"The simplification of anything is always sensational."
G.K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

About Me

I live and paint in the quiet of the Midwestern Heartland. My contemporary paintings show my impression of the old barns, farms, houses, fields, forests, meadows, and lakes of the American heartland.

I paint from my memories and impressions of places that I have been inspired by. I have been working on a series of paintings that show these quiet, calm and peaceful landscapes.
My painting style leans towards realism, although I often use elements of tonalism, impressionism and the abstract in them also.

I received a BFA in Fine Art from Northern IL University. My original art has been shown in gallery shows in the U.S. and is in private collections throughout the U.S.A. as well as in: Iceland, France, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, England, Scotland, Portugal, Italy, Japan and Australia.

An article about my original heartland landscape paintings was in the Art Magazine "Empty Easel". My paintings are featured in the heritage cookbook "Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and Beyond". One of my farm landscape paintings is the cover art on a classical CD by the Wingra Quintet.

France Gallery ~ American Heartland Landscape Paintings

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Calico Cat & Old Red Barn Landscape Painting

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Calico Cat & Old Red Barn Landscape Painting

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