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Michael Godfrey
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Winter 18 x 24 Oil $11000.
 
 

 

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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