Clay Vorhes - Mountainscapes at the John Natsoulas Gallery
Clay Vorhes new paintings at John Natsoulas Center For The Arts 12/6/08.
Sacramento, CA, November 09, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Vertiginous crevices, rolling hills, precipitous edges, and the shrubs and trees that inhabit the landscape, are the subject of this series. Working from close observation and by a blending of realism and abstraction, Vorhes has developed richly detailed, imagined environments. Use of brilliant color, textured surfaces, and extensive paint manipulation characterize the painter's style.
The current mountainscapes reflect an exploration of the expressive nature of painting. Space, time, light, color, shape and form are incoporated in an ever changing, yet stable environment. As Vorhes has said, "the paintings are composites of life, real and imagined," individual to the painter while incorporating a long line of artistic influences. The mountainscapes engage the viewer as a participant and explorer in the ever changing ascent to the top of the mountain.
Clay Vorhes (b. 1968) has been drawing scholastically since childhood and painting professionally for the last eight years. Vorhes' cites a jurassic catalogue of world wide influences from the present dating back to the lascaux cave drawings. His landscpapes have affinities to the early California and southwest landscape painters, as well as Bonnard, Cezanne, Degas, El Greco, Thiebaud, Van Gogh, and Grant Wood.
Vorhes has won several awards including exhibiting competitively at the California State Fair and the Crocker Kingsley. His work is in high demand. Indeed, on a recent trip to Hawaii, he was "forced" to sell a drawing of his coffe cup while sitting in a cafe during his morning sketching exercise!
A reception for the painter, who will be in attendance, will start at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2008.
Clay Vorhes-Recent Mountainscapes
December 3, 2008- December 28, 2008
John Natsoulas Gallery.
The John Natsoulas Gallery is located at 521 First Street, Davis California.
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The current mountainscapes reflect an exploration of the expressive nature of painting. Space, time, light, color, shape and form are incoporated in an ever changing, yet stable environment. As Vorhes has said, "the paintings are composites of life, real and imagined," individual to the painter while incorporating a long line of artistic influences. The mountainscapes engage the viewer as a participant and explorer in the ever changing ascent to the top of the mountain.
Clay Vorhes (b. 1968) has been drawing scholastically since childhood and painting professionally for the last eight years. Vorhes' cites a jurassic catalogue of world wide influences from the present dating back to the lascaux cave drawings. His landscpapes have affinities to the early California and southwest landscape painters, as well as Bonnard, Cezanne, Degas, El Greco, Thiebaud, Van Gogh, and Grant Wood.
Vorhes has won several awards including exhibiting competitively at the California State Fair and the Crocker Kingsley. His work is in high demand. Indeed, on a recent trip to Hawaii, he was "forced" to sell a drawing of his coffe cup while sitting in a cafe during his morning sketching exercise!
A reception for the painter, who will be in attendance, will start at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2008.
Clay Vorhes-Recent Mountainscapes
December 3, 2008- December 28, 2008
John Natsoulas Gallery.
The John Natsoulas Gallery is located at 521 First Street, Davis California.
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