Daniel A. Brown, Artist

Into the Wild Blue

97 River Road
Leyden, MA 01337

Phone: 413-624-5597
www.danielbrownart.com

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"Into the Wild Blue" offers the luminous landscape paintings of Daniel A. Brown who specializes in artwork that promotes comfort and solace. With his vivid colors and exquisite details, Brown creates images that one wishes to climb into and inhabit. Recent studies have revealed that there is something about open, natural views that creates a sense of well-being and peace within us. Landscape views have been found to relieve stress, increase tranquility, and even promote medical healing. So please enter this land of colorful imagination and lose yourself in these special images.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

I was born in New York City in 1950 and have been a resident of Western Massachusetts for the past thirty-eight years. Growing up along "Museum Alley", I began painting at the age of 15 after viewing Vincent Van Gogh's ethereal "Starry Night". In 1998, I came back to painting after a 27-year hiatus. I discovered night flying after getting my pilot's license the previous year. Gazing down at the winter landscapes of my Pioneer Valley after sunset, I found an engaging fairyland world, not unlike what Van Gogh painted a century past. Surprised and encouraged, I began painting this present series of images which reflect the combination of vivid colors, clouds, and sky. Since then, I have exhibited at galleries and art festivals from Maine to Pennsylvania including solo shows in New York City and Boston. Currently, I am being represented by the Art Divas Gallery in Taos, New Mexico which caters to "women artists and a few good men". I find that the ethereal colors of the American Southwest are in keeping with my style and are a constant source of creative inspiration. But I always have one foot here in our wonderful Pioneer Valley where I work out of my studio at Green Trees Gallery in Northfield.

ARTIST STATEMENT

"Artists are the Indians of the white world" - John Fire Lame Deer.

I was drawn to this quote the minute I read it in 1980. Lame Deer further explains that artists are the visionaries of our culture, the ones who are able to capture the invisible and make it come alive. Likewise, it is doubly important in these difficult times to keep reminding ourselves of the beauty of heaven and earth, that this beauty is indeed the natural state of our world, not the aberrations of violence and despair. I am a self-taught artist. For subject matter, I view scenes in everyday life or from my memory and bring them back into the studio. My past training as a photographer makes me particularly sensitive to the subtleties of light and composition. Once in the studio, these ideas go in a variety of directions where I am as much following artistic intuition as applying deliberate technique.
 

I am now showing at the Art Divas Gallery in Taos, New Mexico,
a gallery that "promotes and supports women and a few good men and their art".
Located on 208 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, they will be exhibiting all of my latest work, both original paintings and limited-edition prints, throughout 2008. Their website is www.artdivasartgallery.com. 

All paintings shown here are available for purchase either as original acrylic and oil paintings or as limited edition prints. If interested, please do so through the Art Divas Gallery by calling 505-737-0515, Thursday - Tuesday.

LIST OF ARTWORK SHOWN (in order after the heading picture)

"A Northern View"

"A Southern View"                       both 15 x 30" acrylic on canvas

"Ancient Moonrise"

"Blue Lake Ranch"

"Canyons"

"The Cloisters"                           all 18 x 24" acrylic on canvas

"The Darkest Hour"                    20 x 24" oil on canvas

"En Pais de Dios"                       24 x 36" acrylic on canvas

"The Everlasting Circle"               24 x 36" acrylic on canvas

"Formations"                             15 x 30" acrylic on canvas

"The Great Divide"                     18 x 24" acrylic on canvas

"The Great Wide Open"              22 x 28" acrylic on canvas

"Harvest Moon"                         15 x 30"   acrylic on canvas

"The Magic Field"

"Jumbie Beach"                         both 16 x 20"   acrylic on canvas

"La Canada Road"

"Late Afternoon"

"Leyden Hayfield"

"Moonrise across the Gorge"

"Taos Junction"

"Vermont Springtime"

"West Wind"                            all 18 x 24" acrylic on canvas   

"Pagoda of Peace"                   16 x 20" acrylic on canvas

"Southwest Starlight"                24 x 36" oil on canvas

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