Winter
Perspectives from The Artist's Road
While preparing paintings for a major solo exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art titled, “Transcendence: Truth in Nature, John was working on the exhibition catalogue as well. In the course of writing about the paintings for that catalog, he walked the reader through the four seasons and the inspiration and challenges they bring to the landscape painter.
In this issue, we wanted to share some of his thoughts and paintings about Winter with you.
“Compared to the flurry of frenetic painting in the fall, winter painting is much more evenly paced to the weather. If we get any days of upper thirty-degree weather, I often head outside to work. This is the time to take advantage of the clear light and the bare architecture of the landscape which is normally obscured. What may appear to the casual observer as a stark and barren scene, often holds visual treasures for the artist willing to extend themselves into it. This is what I ha…