By
David Reed
Piece description from the artist
While searching for a scene to paint one sunny October Saturday afternoon, I came upon a bank overlooking a lake and was convinced it would make a beautiful painting. As I began to take pictures, I heard the put-put of a motor boat, and a small craft appeared on the lake before me. Perfect! A fisherman in the scene. Within the year, I had completed the painting. Then, almost exactly a year later (October, sunny Saturday afternoon), I was back at the spot thinking, "This is the subject of my painting," and low and behold. . . put-put-put. . . the same boat, the same fisherman, wearing the same clothes, on the same course heading across the lake. For a moment, I thought I was losing my mind.
David Reed was born and raised in Johnstown, PA and remembers making portraits with poster paints on colored construction paper and pastel and watercolor landscape paintings at a very early age. Visual recreation from life has always been his passion and David pursued formal art study at the Columbus College of Art and Design in fine arts and later at the University of Iowa where he received an MFA in photography. His art reflects his wide range of interests from realistic landscape painting in oils or watercolor to a more abstract collage approach in paint and paper.
David has taught in the digital design and graphics department at the Columbus State Community College and also in many workshop settings while exhibiting locally in Ohio with the Ohio Watercolor Society and nationally at the Bulter Institute of American Art. His work in included in both private and public collections nationwide.
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