Gene Wesley Landscape Artist
BIOGRAPHY
Growing up in central Wisconsin, I have always enjoyed and appreciated the beauty of the rural landscape and farmland. My calling has always been art, and at an early age I was already interested in becoming a landscape painter.
In 1980 I left my hometown in Wisconsin and headed east to Gloucester Massachusetts to study painting at the Gloucester Academy of Fine Art, under the instruction of John C.Tarylac, who offered a direct master apprentice system of study.
It was there that I really began to expand as I absorbed the Cape Ann influence and its rich history of early 20th century American realist painters that had once lived and worked in the area. Later I moved North Salem New York to study portraiture, the figure and still life painting under the guidance of Daniel E. Greene. While in New York I also began working with a mural painting company in the city. That experience lasted for a number of years and offered me the opportunity to travel the nation and as far away as South Africa painting large scale exterior murals.Today I have returned to my home town in central Wisconsin focused on painting the rural landscape. I find the atmosphere and color just as beautiful here as anywhere I have been. And I do not have to travel very far to find subject matter. I am especially interested in painting the old barns that are vanishing from the landscape at an alarming rate.
Much of my painting is more about the essence of the subject than a mere representation of the scene before me. When I see that I have sparked a positive emotion within the viewer, viewing a finished piece, then I know I have done my job.
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