Oak in Storm
2005
Oil on canvas
24" x 32"

Minimum Bid: $250

Walter Smalling

Bio: Walter Smalling, a photographer before becoming a painter, was the photographer for the National Park Services preservation services branch for many years. He has done a dozen or so books on architecture and preservation and now spends most of his time in his painting studio in Washington, D.C. and Penobscot, Maine. He is currently working on a book in black and white on 18th century houses.

Artists Statement: I am interested in the landscape (although I have dabbled in portraiture as well) because of the resonance it has for me as a place of great solace, beauty, order, color, and form. As a painter, the shapes and the forms are very exciting, allowing me a certain license in interpreting a feeling and emotion, as well as an objective form. There is also a sort of universal "language" that is understood by people everywhere in painting the natural landscape. As I continue to work, the forms have become increasingly abstracted until perhaps one day they will become entirely color and shapes.