John Eiseman

My paintings are surely representational and narrative, but they are not about the pictorial. I use the subject matter-whether it be a farmhouse, tree, cloud-as elements of design in order to capture natural phenomena, and mood of "event." Painting is not just the celebration of vision but, rather a quest for experience. It is the process of interpreting a fleeting muse. This process is in a constant state of emergency. This is why painting “en plein air” is so attractive to me—change is always in process, the light is fleeting. I hold suspicious a painting that is resolved easily. "Pushing and Pulling" an image, adding and subtracting values, adjusting color is what brings a painting together. I rarely draw on the canvas, preferring to immediately paint—allowing the "drawing" to sculpt itself.
 
I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1981 and have been painting, teaching and exhibiting ever since. My work has been accepted into and awarded in many regional and national juried exhibitions including Plein Air Easton, Paint Annapolis, Plein Air New Bern, Paint Snow Hill, Salmagundi Club-my paintings are honored to be in many private and public collections.

http://eisemanart.com

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