Custom Frame Shop and Art Gallery.
Now Located in Midtown
2611 Fairbanks St
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Custom Frame Shop and Art Gallery. Now Located in Midtown 2611 Fairbanks St |
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  Oil on Masonite by William Lawrence 12" x 8" $650 Introducing William Lawrence About the Artist Born in 1952 in British Columbia, Bill spent much of his youth exploring the mountains where he lived. He was a cowboy, participated in the rodeo and guided hunters all his life. Bill started painting part-time in 1981 while living in Cody, WY and has painted full time since moving to Alaska in 1997. He has studied Edgar Payne, Carl Rungius, Jim Reynolds, and certain California and Russian painters. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who plays the banjo, dobro, and guitar and who is involved in the Alaska Bluegrass scene. An avid telemark skiier, his spare moments are taken up by splitting firewood and catching fish. "I believe that you must paint what moves you emotionally as an artist, for me that is usually the landscape at this moment in my life, I seem to be a northern painter. I react to salient features in remote locations. Places where most people would never see, and even if they were there, they might not see it. Many people are not aware of their surroundings. It's our job, as artists, to show them what they may be missing. We must paint a scene and make it more beautiful that it really is. A fine painting in your home is like looking out a window, maybe an escape, it should transport you some where. Fine art should create some kind of an emotion for example, a sense of place, maybe a memory of some kind of having been there,, or wanting to be there, and it should be uplifting. My job as a painter is to try and involve the viewer, not to tell the whole story, and let their imagination fill in the gaps. I hope I've accomplished this." Wm. Lawrence Visit www.wmlawrence.com  Oil on Masonite by William Lawrence 14" x 11" $800  "Shades of Grey" Oil on Masonite by William Lawrence 20" x 16" $1,300  "Snow River" Oil on Masonite by William Lawrence 12" x 8" $650 |
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