About the artist
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A native Californian, George McGhee has achieved the reputation of a artist with a unique eye for detail. Much of his early career was spent studying styles of landscape, and seascape painters of the past.
Artist such as Thomas Cole and Frederick Church have influenced him greatly. As masters of the American Luminous Style, Cole and Church studied and painted in the Hudson River School era during the 1800's. Building on this inspiration with over 30 years of experience. George has emerged in the 21st century with his own approach in his art work. His subjects range from land and seascapes to wildlife and marine subjects.
George's visions are some times revealed in various shades and shadows of his paintings. As his brush moves across his canvassed world of lights, darks, and earth tone colors, and his subjects emote life and dimension that allows viewers to feel transported to places that somehow speak to both the imagination and earthliness.
His recent works have been influenced by the California Coastlands, and his many visits the most of the Hawaiian Islands, where he admits to finding subjects and resources of endless beauty.
George has won several awards honoring his artistic achievements, as well as his paintings , and reproductions are widely collected throughout the United States and Internationally.
He is also a member of THE AMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY.
ART IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THAT IS NEVER SPOKEN ALOUD, BUT FELT IN THE HEART AND SOUL. A SLIENT LANGUAGE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO NEED OF OCTAVES, JUST PASSION.
CREATING ART:
For me the process of creating art starts with feeling your presence in a area of your desire, and recording your presence/ feeling from the minds eye, to your hands, to your pallet, to your canvas.
A painting should not be of your subject, but about your subject. It cannot always be about what you see at that moment , but also about the passion of the moment , and how you interpret it.
I believe that the artist is a storyteller who tells a story about their spritual, and physical adventure's as they alone see them.
I have studied many photographs that I have taken of my subjects, but my dreams have produced the art work that I love.
As an artist loving your art work is an aquired taste, that only through the years, begin to sweeten and evoke passion from the inside out.
Through our travels in life we have seen beautiful places, and have tried to capture exactly what was seen and felt through photographs, which always seems to fall a little short of being there.
Such is life, and is why through our travels we try to become as one with with the land or subject, exercising all of our senses to make the experience complete.
Knowing where to begin a piece of art and when to stop, is by feel alone.
To just look at ones art creation to determine its completion to me is not sufficient. I feel one must be able to look into the art work and feel the experience of the journey, as well as feel the sense of the art work appearing to look back into your eyes , and announce it is complete.
I have collected art all of my life, and can attest to the feeling of escape that viewing a fine art piece can emote, and can only hope for the same when in view of my own creations.
If I can objectively view a piece of my art work and get the feel, look into it, and experience the story that it is telling, then and only then is that art piece complete, and welcomed to the art world.
G.M.
Artist such as Thomas Cole and Frederick Church have influenced him greatly. As masters of the American Luminous Style, Cole and Church studied and painted in the Hudson River School era during the 1800's. Building on this inspiration with over 30 years of experience. George has emerged in the 21st century with his own approach in his art work. His subjects range from land and seascapes to wildlife and marine subjects.
George's visions are some times revealed in various shades and shadows of his paintings. As his brush moves across his canvassed world of lights, darks, and earth tone colors, and his subjects emote life and dimension that allows viewers to feel transported to places that somehow speak to both the imagination and earthliness.
His recent works have been influenced by the California Coastlands, and his many visits the most of the Hawaiian Islands, where he admits to finding subjects and resources of endless beauty.
George has won several awards honoring his artistic achievements, as well as his paintings , and reproductions are widely collected throughout the United States and Internationally.
He is also a member of THE AMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY.
ART IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THAT IS NEVER SPOKEN ALOUD, BUT FELT IN THE HEART AND SOUL. A SLIENT LANGUAGE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO NEED OF OCTAVES, JUST PASSION.
CREATING ART:
For me the process of creating art starts with feeling your presence in a area of your desire, and recording your presence/ feeling from the minds eye, to your hands, to your pallet, to your canvas.
A painting should not be of your subject, but about your subject. It cannot always be about what you see at that moment , but also about the passion of the moment , and how you interpret it.
I believe that the artist is a storyteller who tells a story about their spritual, and physical adventure's as they alone see them.
I have studied many photographs that I have taken of my subjects, but my dreams have produced the art work that I love.
As an artist loving your art work is an aquired taste, that only through the years, begin to sweeten and evoke passion from the inside out.
Through our travels in life we have seen beautiful places, and have tried to capture exactly what was seen and felt through photographs, which always seems to fall a little short of being there.
Such is life, and is why through our travels we try to become as one with with the land or subject, exercising all of our senses to make the experience complete.
Knowing where to begin a piece of art and when to stop, is by feel alone.
To just look at ones art creation to determine its completion to me is not sufficient. I feel one must be able to look into the art work and feel the experience of the journey, as well as feel the sense of the art work appearing to look back into your eyes , and announce it is complete.
I have collected art all of my life, and can attest to the feeling of escape that viewing a fine art piece can emote, and can only hope for the same when in view of my own creations.
If I can objectively view a piece of my art work and get the feel, look into it, and experience the story that it is telling, then and only then is that art piece complete, and welcomed to the art world.
G.M.