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Artist/Bio Jeff Love
Artist Biography:
Born in 1961 into a farming family from Ohio, Jeff spent his early years with a pasture of sheep, acres of corn and a red prairie barn as his playgrounds. As Jeff watched his grandfather shepherd a flock of sheep or harvest a field of corn, a love for nature grew. Art was always of interest to Jeff and the two seemed to go together well. A move to Colorado during his early teen years brought about a new love to build his growing interest in art on – The Rocky Mountains. Excelling in art in school, a high school teacher recognized that Jeff needed to go farther and encouraged him to take college courses while in high school at an art school in Colorado Springs where he explored various mediums and styles. After high school, Jeff studied art in college in Kansas City, Kansas, furthering his skills which led to an award in watercolor and representation in a gallery show. After college, Jeff felt a call on his life to a career in ministry and has spent many fulfilling years helping others discover their unique giftedness and purpose in life. Ministry has taken Jeff to Colorado, Nebraska, West Texas, and Arizona, where he now lives. During these years, Jeff focused his continuing education in ministerial studies, painting mostly for enjoyment and as an outlet. Finally in 2007, Jeff recognized that an important part of his own life-purpose was creating and painting. Jeff is a firm believer and has taught countless many that it is never too late to become the best that God intends you to be. Actively pursuing painting with the inspiration and encouragement of instruction from some of his favorite artists, Jeff’s medium of choice is oil in which he has dedicated himself to exploring the Arizona landscape both en plein air and in the studio. Jeff loves to teach, paint and study art, wander the wilderness looking for just the right light, and his paintings are often inspired from some remote mountain location in the high desert of Southern Arizona. Studied:
Mid-America Nazarene University, Fine Arts 1979-82 Doctorate of Science in Ministry - Completed 2006 Gabor Svagrik - Studio Painting 2008 Phil Starke - Plein Air Painting 2009 Jim Wilcox - Studio Painting 2010 Matt Smith - Plein Air Painting 2011 Matt Smith - Studio Painting 2011 Skip Whitcomb - Plein Air Painting 2012 *Feb 2011- Jeff was awarded an art scholarship based on merit from The Friends of Western Art. *Sept 2011 - Jeff was awarded an art scholarship based on merit from the Scottsdale Artist's School. *April 2012 - Jeff's painting "Fearless" 24X36" will appear in the April issue of Southwest Art Magazine representing the Arizona Plein Air Painters. *Jan 2012 - Jeff was awarded a Shirl Smithson Scolarship for 2012 through the Oil Painters of America
Exhibition Record:
2012 "Empire 100" Western Show and Sale 2011 Paint the Parks Top 100 2011 Tucson International Airport TPAPS - Lower Link Gallery 2011 Arizona Plein Air Painters Annual Members Show, Sedona, AZ - SEG Gallery 2011 "Out in the Open" - The Art of Plein Air - Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2011 "Empire 100" Western Art Show and Sale 2011 "Painters of the American West Showcase" - Tucson Plein Air Painters Society 2010 "Paint the Aspens" - Arizona Plein Air Painters 2010 "Fresh Visions" - Tucson Plein Air Painters Society - Third Place 2010 "Fresh Paint" - The University of Arizona Museum of Art 2009 Oro Valley Arts Show Memberships:
Oil Painters of America - Since 2008 Tucson Plein Air Painters - Since 2008 (Achieved Artist Member 2011) National Oil And Acrylic Painters' Society - Since 2009
Arizona Plein Air Painters - Since 2010 Artist Statement:
As an artist I strive to paint in such a way as to reflect God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature - as seen clearly and understood in all that He has created. |
