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Read the Artist's Statement here Christopher Volpe began his creative and professional life as a writer and teacher.While teaching the history of art at Franklin Pierce University and Chester College of New England, both in New Hampshire, he began researching and writing about 19th century American landscape artists who painted in the White Mountains. Not long after, he began experimenting with oil paints, creating emotive, semi-abstract landscapes of his own. |
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With his wife, artist Anna Birch, Chris shares studio space in the Mills at Salmon Falls in Rollinsford, N.H. His work has been exhibited and sold through juried shows at the 100 Market Street Gallery Summer Show (prize winner), Lamprey Arts & Culture Alliance (LACA), Beaver Brook Farm in Hollis, N.H., and in auctions at Spring Hill Farm, Vermont, Exeter Wet Paint, and the annual "Art To Go" show and auction organized by Seacoast Outright. Chris focuses on expressive landscapes based largely on his New England surroundings. His style references 19th century traditions such as Barbizon and Tonalism but filters them through a contemporary 20th/21st century sensibility. Some of the landscapes are drawn from memory, some are created en plein air, and others arise from imaginative literature. The paintings often suggest abstracted, dream-like moods and visions embodied in nature's transitional states: dusk, dawn, mists, clouds, marshes, moonlight, dark trees silhouetted against luminous skies. |
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