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Four Corners Project: San Juan River Basin in art. These are Published paintings. Have you ever touched (been in) four states at once? Have you ever been to Farmington, NM? Have you ever traveled I-40 through New Mexico and Arizona? Was the landscape just a blur of blue skies and brown earth as you sped by... or have you ever stopped to notice the landscape you hurriedly traveled through: The colors, the flora, and perhaps even the fauna. Have you ever ventured off the beaten path, the asphalt scar upon the land? Have you ever truly been within Nature? have you ever experienced the deafening sound of silence, of solitude? Have you ever stopped to appreciate the "natural" landscape in which you live? Stop and smell the roses... No my child, stop and "view" the natural environs of which you live, if not the simplistic beauty of the Southwest landscape that surrounds you. I won't even get in to sunsets...
About me: My name is Glenn Vandre Jr. I have been water coloring since 1985, after a 4 year bout with oils, which I finally realized were too smelly, too expensive, took too long to dry, and stained everything that they got on. Guess I was sloppy.
That was when I relocated to Arizona from the panhandle of Texas. As a navy brat and thus criss-crossing the country several times on good old US Rt. 66 in the 50's and 60's, I was always struck with the country from the California deserts at Indio and on to Tucumcari, New Mexico. Anyway, many times I vowed that someday I'd live in the Southwest----And here I am!
My American Southwest, from an artists viewpoint, is unique in its grandeur, often presents itself as overwhelming in its vastness, is strikingly unbelievable in its colors (which include its sunrises and sun sets), and always presents great drama in its vistas.
As a painter, the goal is to capture these attributes on paper, and to do so, so that
the end result is a believable portrayal of the beauty of the landscape. Personally, I see the painting in my minds eye. Getting it out of my mind and onto the paper is the challenge. I am not a pastel person! I do not depict my subject in the abstract. A mountain must look like a mountain, a tree must be believable as a tree, and not as a green blob; and clouds, rocks, and even the weeds should leave no doubt as to what they really are.
I believe that the proof is in the details---that often it is having details on the details, so that the final work becomes almost photographic. In other words, the grass under the trees is as important as the tree itself---the faded shadows on the far distant mountains must be there to compliment the sharp, dark lines of the nearest range.
Enough of my theories, and attempts to address what makes me, me, in regard
to my paintings. In the final analysis, my paintings reflect how I see the beautiful Great Southwest---without cowboys and cows, without farms and factories, with no cities or telephone poles, without rustic cabins in the forest, and totally off the Interstate----really as pristine as it was when it was created.
It brings me great joy to transfer what I see in my mind onto paper. I sincerely hope you enjoy my work too.
Glenn (Skip)
Ah... but there's more... My published works will appear in an upcoming college text book. I participated in the creation of this work as a landscape artist.
The Four Corners Flora Project:
This group of 14 water colors, (size of original paintings is 11 x 14), are soon to be published in the text and reference book, "The Four Corners Flora Project", by Kenneth Heil, project director, and his project co-editors Steve O'Kane, Linda Reeves, and Arnold Clifford. Kenneth is also the curator of the San Juan College herbarium, and a retired professor of biology and geology at the Farmington, New Mexico campus.
This publication, currently slated to be in the neighborhood of 1200 pages, will be, by far, the most complete and comprehensive work on this subject for this unique part of the United States. It will be published by the Missouri Botanical Garden in late 2007 or early 2008. Kenneth has solicited and acquired collaboration and participation from noted experts on the various plant groups, families and genera from colleges and universities nation wide. Many species new to science have been described during the research period, many habitats of rare and endangered plants have been documented. Non-native and invasive plant species are also included in the book.
The study area includes all parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado that are drained by the San Juan River, and its tributaries. Basically this area includes
Navajo Mountain on the Arizona-Utah line, the southern shores of Lake Powell, much of the Navajo Nation around Kayenta and Tsale Lake in Arizona, through Shiprock, New Mexico, and the environs around the Farmington/Aztec area, Southeastern Utah near Bluff, Ut, the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, the Northeastern corner of New Mexico, the Southwestern corner of Colorado around Durango and Cortez, to the alpine meadows at 13,000 plus feet above Silverton, Co.
Each painting represents a climatic or vegetation zone, or a special flora habitat within a zone. Each painting was also inspired by my personal on site visitation and observation, but are not necessarily, in all instances, an actual identifiable location. Those that are not, however, have been created to depict the essence of each particular zone as if one would be passing through it.
These paintings are listed under the ID# code FP, and are available for your review in the Pic Section.
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