Gavin Brooks
Gallery Representation
Addison
Fine Art Orleans, Mass.
Hole in the Wall Gallery Ennis
Montana
McBride
Gallery Annapolis, MD
South
Street Gallery Easton, MD
Gallerie
Hawaii Lahaina, Maui HI
Statement
These works are the result of
time in the company of nature.
Accumulating an outdoor experience over the years has been important in
landscape painting. I find myself on a journey of surprising complexity
and perseverance where working on location is an ongoing exercise in broadening
knowledge. Painting trees, clouds and rivers in deliberate study often
means that many paintings won’t ever make it to a frame. These notes from the
field become part an ongoing experience where
each painting contributes in some way to the next.
Painting
in the tradition of the post-impressionists is not about
strict adherence to details. There is an engaging middle ground where
fundamentals in realism yields to expressive abstraction of the elements. This
is where creativity, intellect, experience
and passion for nature merge into artistic discovery .
Memory plays a huge part in composing paintings that speak to this and I
am encouraged by the strong role this plays in my work.
Under its influence I imagine cool arrangements deep in the shade of
trees and soft shapes of rocks under moving water; all things affected by
particles of air, light, shadow and layers of memory.
There
is a constant balance in working with what I am seeing in the moment and what I
know to be true in absence of the evidence.
Seeking truth in the sublime and painting in this realm is not about what
I see in nature but more about how it feels when I am standing in it.
Gavin
Brooks
Biography
Education
Florida
Atlantic University at Boca Raton, Fl 1982
College of Notre Dame Baltimore , Md. 1985
The Schuler School of Fine Art ,
Baltimore , Md. 2002
Independent Study/Workshops
Scott
Christensen Jackson Wyoming 2002
-2003
Juried
Exhibitions and Awards
Oil
Painters of America National Exhibition Taos
NM 2002
Oil Painters of America Exhibition Richmond
VA 2001
Paint Annapolis 2004 MAPAPA - Award of Merit
2004
Plein Air Easton 2005 Grand Prize Winner
Award of Excellence Plein Air Magazine 2005
Plein Air Easton 2006 - Best Pastoral Painting and Honorable Mention
Periodicals
Who’s
Who in American Art 2006/2007
Fine
Art Connoisseur Feature
August 2005
Ask
Art /The Artist Bluebook
2005
Museum
Collections
Academy
Art Museum, Easton, Maryland
One
and Two Person Shows
McBride
Gallery Annapolis 2004
Hole in The Wall Gallery, Ennis,
Montana 2004
Addison Art , Cape Cod, Massachusetts 2005
Fraser Fine Art , San Francisco , California 2005
Ladew Topiary Gardens Museum 2006
Memberships
Plein
Air Painters of the Southeast
National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters, Signature
The Loudoun Society Ten, Executive Member
Oil Painters of America 2001-2005
Laguna Plein Air Painters 2003-2005
Artist Website
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