DArrel MCpherson |
"My goal in working from life, the struggle to translate one’s surrounding into art. The reward is in creating the form of lucid depth, rich in texture. The intensity is increased by adding layers of color along with articulated brush movement. This combination causes painting to break through the pigment, moving form from the realm of the sublime into the realized world of the present. The artist must engage in spirit as much as technique. Reality and abstraction blur lines between the perceived and the observed. The challenge is to communicate through the medium of what is felt and what is to come."
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McPherson’s colors are soft and emoted, he quickly renders them on the spot to capture the essence of time, space and nostalgia as felt by past masters, in a technique known as en plein air. His larger works are then started the same day while the feeling is still fresh.
McPherson has painted constantly from 1970 to the present. His background in art started in Indiana at Indiana University and his work transformed in Memphis. While attending Memphis University he gained his MA. Originally, the artist’s background lent more abstract and even symbolist stylistically but everything changed in 1990 in the viewing of a small paint sketch by Pissarro, “When I saw for the first time the power of feeling of an afternoon in the French countryside so long ago I realized the spirit of a work can be more than the image.” The last breakthroughs occurred for the artist in 2006 that formed his present work.
The artist considers his school of influence to be the French School and the California Style as well as the Hudson River School. His influences are Pissarro, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Edward Payne, William Sontag Jr., James and William McDougal Hart among others.
His works have been shown in galleries across the country and collected globally.
McPherson has painted constantly from 1970 to the present. His background in art started in Indiana at Indiana University and his work transformed in Memphis. While attending Memphis University he gained his MA. Originally, the artist’s background lent more abstract and even symbolist stylistically but everything changed in 1990 in the viewing of a small paint sketch by Pissarro, “When I saw for the first time the power of feeling of an afternoon in the French countryside so long ago I realized the spirit of a work can be more than the image.” The last breakthroughs occurred for the artist in 2006 that formed his present work.
The artist considers his school of influence to be the French School and the California Style as well as the Hudson River School. His influences are Pissarro, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Edward Payne, William Sontag Jr., James and William McDougal Hart among others.
His works have been shown in galleries across the country and collected globally.
