The Library is pleased to partner with the Guild of Berkshire Artists to present a demonstration with oil landscape painter Chris Morel on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.
Click here to join the meeting. Passcode: 020582.
Artist’s statement:
“I am a landscape artist striving to skillfully capture the essence of the evolving contemporary West in my paintings. I trained as a serious artist at Towson University in Maryland before discovering my home and ultimate subject matter in the mountains outside of Taos where I’ve been painting since 1994.
I find inspiration and guidance from the legacy of great painters of the area. I hope to discover moments of light, create compelling compositions and render ordinary sights into extraordinary paintings. Taos is a Mecca for landscape painters, and I was drawn here like many before me. A lifetime is only what it takes to really reflect the energy and spirit of this magical area, and of course that’s never going to be enough time.
In the last year and a half, I have also been fortunate to live part time and open a studio in Stockbridge, MA. Painting the Berkshires and surrounding areas has provided a tremendous opportunity for fresh subject matter for paintings from this beautiful part of our country.
My objective, through intensive landscape study for 32 years, is to not just let you see these places through my eyes, but to feel it in this limited two-dimensional format when possible. I want you to feel the temperature, time of day, the air, the seasons, the light and shadow, the grandeur and scale of these places through one artists interpretation.
If I continue to grow and produce art, I will have hopefully left something of value from a lifelong love affair with the natural landscape…in my opinion God’s greatest Art!”