f.Bio:
James Reynolds is a New England landscape painter in the impressionistic style using a limited oil palette and aggressive brush work. Reynolds earned his BS at UMass and has studied directly with New England painters Mark Boedges, Stapleton Kearns, Jerry Weiss and Jonathan McPhillips. He is a present/past member of Oil Painters of America (OPA), Cape Cod Art Association and the Plymouth Guild. Reynolds work is collected throughout the region, and has appeared in The Boston Globe, Associated Press, New England Cable News (NECN), Provincetown Banner and The Cape Codder.
Artist's Statement:
Painting has almost nothing to do with paints. At its core it is a mental and spiritual exercise. It is about being present in a place that has somehow overtaken your will through an initial recognition of some beauty or composition. You want to spend time describing some element of light or mood, but progressively you reveal the secrets that time has hidden away here. Whether architecture, or a coastline, or field and forest ravaged by the seasons, paints are really just tools and techniques to relay what this place told you about itself.
James Reynolds is a New England landscape painter in the impressionistic style using a limited oil palette and aggressive brush work. Reynolds earned his BS at UMass and has studied directly with New England painters Mark Boedges, Stapleton Kearns, Jerry Weiss and Jonathan McPhillips. He is a present/past member of Oil Painters of America (OPA), Cape Cod Art Association and the Plymouth Guild. Reynolds work is collected throughout the region, and has appeared in The Boston Globe, Associated Press, New England Cable News (NECN), Provincetown Banner and The Cape Codder.
Artist's Statement:
Painting has almost nothing to do with paints. At its core it is a mental and spiritual exercise. It is about being present in a place that has somehow overtaken your will through an initial recognition of some beauty or composition. You want to spend time describing some element of light or mood, but progressively you reveal the secrets that time has hidden away here. Whether architecture, or a coastline, or field and forest ravaged by the seasons, paints are really just tools and techniques to relay what this place told you about itself.
