Landscapes by Jack Stuppin

"The joy and delight expressed in these pictures convey an authentic experience in seeing and painting."
	Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus of Art History University of California at Berkeley

"My paintings celebrate nature. The colorful works are not easy to ignore and I hope that those who view them will see the landscape in a new and more intense way. The paintings are the result of my emotional reaction to the scene and my intellectual reaction to our threatened environment. I hope they will touch, influence and give pleasure to many people." Jack Stuppin On March 28, 2007, Jack Stuppin was interviewed by Molly Barnes for her ARTINQUIRY program titled "The Art of Jack Stuppin". Click here to view a video of the program. Many of the paintings were executed en plein air. Because of the limitations imposed by climatic conditions, the paintings done outdoors are generally smaller than what can be done in the studio. Click here to view a video demonstrating my en plein air painting technique. Starting in 2001, Jack has used some en plein air paintings as inspiration for larger oils that he rendered in the studio. Twelve of the studio paintings were exhibited in a one person show Where Land Meets Art at the Sonoma County Museum in 2002. These paintings are in Galleries 1 and 2 under Oils. Mark Van Proyen's essay Enchanted Landings discusses this show and may be read under About Jack. As an introduction to this essay Jack wrote: "The act of painting undoubtedly sets off what must be an excited level of neurotransmitters. We who paint gravitate compulsively to the chemical and psychic rewards triggered by the creative process." There are other oil paintings illustrated in Galleries 3 and 4 under Oils.


	Quail Hill, Freestone Oil on canvas, 48" X 64 7/8", 2002 This painting and several others are on loan to the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC.