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Jim Gola, Artist
Welcome to my Galleries
The design of custom residences has
been my primary mode of earning a living for the past 40 years.
Most professional designers I know are involved in other forms of artistic
pursuits.
I am no exception.
These pursuits have traveled
alongside the one that has put the bread and butter on our table.
I have always had a continuous involvement with most forms of graphic art, in
particular,
that of my first love, oil painting.
Included on this web site are a few
earlier artistic "accomplishments" coupled
with my latest trip paintings. (See
"Ireland Revisited”
link below).
The above quotes bordering the word
"accomplishments" indicate that the challenges
are always great when re-entering the fine art arena after exiting the
commercial field.
As an artist, I am currently greatly
enamored with landscape painting including plein air work.
My influences are mainly derived from French artists of the Barbizon School
alongside
the late great American landscape artist George Inness.
For the past twenty years I have ingested much of his work, both viewing his actual
painting surfaces
in the originals and in the many excellent publications available on his life and work.
Hopefully my work might reflect some minute traces based on my admiration
of the work of
this great landscape master.
Your comments are always welcome.
You may now purchase Giclee* prints of
selected art by clicking on the icon
link below at Fine Art America:
Giclée* is an invented name for the process of making fine art
prints
from a digital source using ink-jet printing.
The term is often used instead of Inkjet in art shops.
Jim Gola, Artist
23908 NW Toenjes Road
Woodland, WA 98674