Recently I was pleased to be featured on Seattle Refined as their Artist of the Week. You can find the story here. Typically they share artists from the Seattle area, but my work was also of interest because of ties to the area and my collection of work created while visiting the Pacific Northwest.
Washington is one of my paintings featuring the area near Seattle.
Puget Sound was created around the same time as Inlet, white spending time on the Olympic Peninsula.
Port Orford is the most recent addition to my Pacific Northwest gallery. I completed this pastel while experiencing forty-mile an hour winds. That day, I walked out onto an island near Port Orford, Oregon, to get to this vantage point. It was a little dicey because I had to navigate a very thin ridge to get into position. However, once out there, I found a cove that protected me from the wind.
I’m currently building up the images in my Pacific Northwest gallery. Alaska is the latest addition.
I recently created a profile on the Pittsburgh Artist Registry. The Registry is a project of the Office of Public Art and features artists in southwestern Pennsylvania. View my profile here.
Update:
Thanks to the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, who featured my profile on their Facebook page on January 14, 2021
I spent most of my life working in the woods, working in the logging industry. It makes sense that I would paint in the woods as well.
New Growth
Oil Painting
36″x 36″
4500
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Woods was painted en plein air on a farm in Portersville, Pennsylvania.
Woods
Oil Painting
38″x 30″
4000
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Reflection is a retake of an oil painting of a beaver pool that I did one afternoon in upstate New York.
Reflection
$2800
Oil
24″x 30″
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Welcome to Mark Gardner Art, where I share news and images of my oil and pastel paintings. If this is your first visit to my website, I’d like to share a little about myself and my art.
I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter. After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years. Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City. Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.
I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter. After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years. Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City. Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.
Most comfortable in the outdoors, I work primarily en Plein air, as my love of creation and nature drives me. The bulk of my work is nature landscapes, but I deviate from this from time to time. Both the scenic beauty of places traveled and my current surroundings in Western Pennsylvania influence my work.
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