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Gregg Caudell started his art training in the early 1970’s at Eastern Washington State College where he studied print making with Bruce Beal.  Later he obtained additional training at Fort Wright College in Spokane where he studied oil painting with Charles Palmer and Al Ring.  While fascinated by impressionistic work he focused mainly on the art he grew up with in Great Falls, Montana:  western landscapes and themes.  He participated in multiple western art shows at venues such as the Museum of Native American Culture’s Western Art Show and the Donida Farms Invitational in Tukwila, Washington.

For several years his art took a back seat to his writing and his family as he worked with and wrote about draft horses.  Gregg was the editor and publisher of the Horseloggers’ International Newsletter and produced a video and manual on horselogging that is still offered by the Small Farm Journal and the Mischka Farm catalogue.

In 2003 Gregg’s children went off to college and he turned his attention back to painting, winning first place at the Basin Juried Art Show in 2007, sponsored by the Moses Lake Museum of Arts and Culture.

Primarily a plein air landscape artist, Gregg is an outdoorsman that paints on location from the Rocky Mountain foothills of eastern Washington to the rocky coast of down east Maine.  Gregg revels in the places of natural wonder he has the privilege to paint.  "Plein Air painting captures the moment of a place but it is also a performance.  I like people to watch me paint so they can appreciate the magic that I feel when a painting comes together.  Painting is like fishing, sometimes you catch one and sometimes you don't, it is being there, in that moment, in that place, appreciating the marvel of life."

Many times Gregg's plein air studies turn into studio projects. "I like to paint big.  I like big color and thick paint. Painting outside limits the size of the canvas that is practical to paint on.  The light changes and I usually have three hours at the most in which to capture the moment. When I work in the studio I have the opportunity to develop ideas, painterly ideas.  One painting leads to another and becomes a series."

Gregg is currently represented by the following galleries:

Art @ Work, Eastern Washington Musem, Spokane, WA

Outskirts Gallery, Hope, ID
Timberstand Gallery, Sandpoint ID.
Silver Star Gallery, Chelan, WA
Centerpiece Gallery, Seal Harbor, ME
Wingspread Gallery, NE Harbor, ME
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Awards;

Best of Show, Moses Lake Museum, Open Regional

Published Work;

Horselogger's Manual

Video; "A Day Horselogging, The Basics"

Small Farmer's Journal

Farmer's Almanac

Rural Heritage Magazine

Contact information:

Gregg Caudell, (509) 775.2130

gcaudell@msn.com

 

For me art is about an idea and the process of reaching that idea. The idea may come from sun shining on a stand of cottonwoods, dressed in their glorious fall foliage, set off by the deep blue of a mountain.

I usually work outside, in "plein air", capturing the moment, learning the visual vocabulary of nature. I may develop my out door studies into a series of studio paintings, often expanding one painting into another. I may be pursuing a combination of colors or developing the composition, it's an incremental process of discovery. When it's working, the painting takes on a life of it's own and speaks to me of possibilities I never would have suspected.

It's all a process of discovery, of personal growth, inspired by a moment in nature, whereby the painting becomes a new object that never existed before. Like plowing a furrow and planting a seed that grows into a crop to sustain life.

Nature is the muse that I dance with and her gift is creativity.

caveat: These paintings are available without frames to save on shipping although frames are available please contact STF for details.  These paintings are a standard size.  Frames can be readily obtained at any framing shop to match your taste and decore.  The artist can provide frames upon request.

If you want to see the process I keep a blog of my efforts at www.pleinairartist.blogspot.com/