NEEDLE • KNIFE • TORCH [&] BRUSH
Steven S. Powers presents, NEEDLE • KNIFE • TORCH [&] BRUSH, a collection of Outsider, Folk Art and good ol' Americana assembled for exhibition and sale at The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show April 15-17 2016 with a gala preview party April 14. The Navy Yard, Marine Parade Grounds, Philadelphia, PA 19112. StevenSPowers.com for more information.
Steven S. Powers presents, NEEDLE • KNIFE • TORCH [&] BRUSH, a collection of Outsider, Folk Art and good ol' Americana assembled for exhibition and sale at The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show April 15-17 2016 with a gala preview party April 14. The Navy Yard, Marine Parade Grounds, Philadelphia, PA 19112. StevenSPowers.com for more information.
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John David Wissler<br />
“My passion has always been the landscape. I feel a sense of<br />
history when painting… the painters I admire and study, Corot,<br />
Constable, Turner, Inness, Bonnard, Resika…the history of the land<br />
itself and my own familiar connection to it. Painting comes through<br />
the study of nature…transformed, not merely copied. Seeing the<br />
immediacy of the place…what strikes me first. The way trees react<br />
to fields, colour to colour, shape to shape…pushing and pulling the<br />
plastic nature of the picture plane, creating believable space.<br />
I find the challenge of using what I have observed, taking it to my<br />
studio, and creating a new painting invigorating. Drawing upon the<br />
memory of place and experience…using the language, I have<br />
learned from nature, trying to keep the painting fresh…space,<br />
clarity, surprise…that’s painting!”<br />
—John David Wissler