About the Artist |
Michael Godfrey is a
representational landscape artist whose work hangs in many private
and corporate collections. Born in Germany in l958 and raised
in North Carolina, he earned a BFA in Fine Arts and began his
painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours field
sketching and photographing, preparing for a well thought out
painting.
Godfrey composes his paintings from on-site sketches in the field
and photographic references.
Typically, he starts a major work using small oil studies done
on location. These field studies provide color accuracy and photographs
provide special details. In studio, work progresses in successive
layers of paint and light is orchestrated to create a painting
that appeals to his internal sense of order.
An artist must observe
with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled.
For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included
in a work as what is eventually laid down. I ask myself, "what
is the dominant truth - is it color, shape of land forms, or
time of day". I try to understand what I am seeing, so that
the final work will capture the visual emotion.
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