Dennis Collard's Paintings

ART BIO AND STATEMENT OF DENNIS COLLARD

BIOGRAPHY 

Dennis is a representational painter who has dabbled in painting off and on since childhood whenever time and inspiration would allow. He has experimented with different mediums, supports, pallets and styles to expand his artistic expressions.

He has had private showings and sales. Also, has had art entered in a show at  the Unitarian Church Art Show, a fundraiser and  two shows at The Art of the West Gallery (National Parks Theme and  Lands and Lifestyle Theme) in Broomfield Colorado and hosted a show for himself and two other artists. Recently he had a painting of an Eagle accepted in a show featuring Birds of the Rocky Mountain Region II at The Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming, a painting at the CORE Art Space In Lakewood and two paintings at Art Mozaik in Santa Fe, NM.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I love the challenge of creating depth and space in a landscape painting, finding the right values and color temperatures. My hope is that viewers of my paintings find something of value that they can relate to and might deepen their connection to nature or be temporarily transported to another space or time in their mind.

Influencers have been: Russell Chatham, Edgar Alwyn Payne, J.M.William Turner, John F. Carlson, Chuck Mardosz and his children Kim and Paul who are both artists

My inspiration as a child came from my art teacher Mrs. West. She helped me find my creativity and appreciation of art. I have taken art classes in High School and one at Colorado State University as an elective. Recently I have been taking oil painting classes from master artist Chuck Mardosz at the Anita Marie Gallery in Colorado Springs.