Winter Light 2009 Acrylic Print

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Winter Light 2009 The terrain in western upstate New York is a flat plain snuggled between the Great Lakes of Erie and Ontario. This allows for wide open views of the big sky. The ever changing weather coming off the lakes provides for dramatic and unpredictable skies. With beautiful sunsets and sunrises. I like to have vertical objects like steeples, silos and trees to break up the straight line of the horizon and to unify the sky with the land.

Arthur Barnes is a artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, watercolor, pastels and oils. He prefers to work directly from life and his favorite subjects are landscapes with an emphasis on nocturnes and scenes of the Erie Canal. Arthur has had little formal training but was fortunate to study a year under Juanita Greene Parks in 1982. She had studied under Reginald Marsh and Robert Brackman. Brackman was a student of Ashcan artist/ teacher Robert Henri. Since that time, Arthur has been on a consistent course of self-training in art with an emphasis on learning through experience much like the Ashcan artists. "You learn to draw. . .by drawing," his teacher often recited. Artists Statement on Nocturnes "Half of our...