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Landscape Artist
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| Michael Godfrey "Gentle Cascade" 12 x 16 Oil |
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| Michael Godfrey "Winter's Best" 12 x 12 Oil About Michael Godfrey Michael Godfrey is an award-winning landscape artist whose work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Born in Germany in 1958 and raised in North Carolina, he earned a BA in Fine Arts and began his painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours photographing and sketching, preparing for a well thought out painting. Michael describes his style as a combination of George Inness' impressionism with the moods of an Albert Bierstadt painting. "I paint," he says "to help people notice the special moments that happen every day, especially the drama when light first splashes across a scene." From different perspectives and different times of day, he works to capture and interpret the varying moods of light. "A landscape artist has to have knowledge of many disciplines (geology, chemistry, physics, architecture), to understand the world in which they are trying to create. An artist must observe with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled. For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included in a work as what is eventually laid down. I ask myself, what is the dominant truth—is it color, shape of land forms, or time of day. I try to understand what I am seeing, so that the final work will capture the visual emotion." >> more information on Michael Godfrey << All American Art Invitational Works Are Available Now At Saks Galleries Cherry Creek 3019 East Second Avenue Denver, Colorado 80206 303.333.4144 www.saksgalleries.com |
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