ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Painting With Mind-Eye Magic
"Landscapes are my primary subject and painting with mind-eye magic is the goal. Our mind and eyes selectively ignore portions of what we see, isolating what catches our interest from the rest of what is in view. Interesting adjacent scenes remain in sight' in memory as we turn to survey a wide panoramic view. And yet, when the scene is reduced to a photograph, we can't seem to use this mind-eye magic. The mountains often lose their grandeur, power lines intrude, and wide expanses of un interesting foreground or sky now stand out.
"My objective is to capture some of what my mind thinks I see, rather than just an image that comes from a camera, and do this while maintaining a sense of place. If someone familiar with the region looks at one of my paintings and comments both that it's a nice painting and that they recognize the area being represented, then in my view I will have made a successful painting."
EXHIBITIONS:
Oil Painters of America; 2008
Bennington Center of the Arts; 2009 & 2010
C.M. Russell Art Auction; 2010
Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction; 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014
Carbon County Arts Guild two-artist show; 2014
Art In The Beartooths; 2015
Northwest College one man show; 2015
As well as a number of local shows in CO, MT and WY
JIM IS REPRESENTED BY:
The Cody Country Art League
836 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414
(307) 587-3597
"Early Morning" goes on the block at the Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction held in 2009 at the Rist Canyon Mountain Festival, Bellvue, CO
Jim works in his studio on "Dance of the Trees" using the reference photos he took several years previously.
BIOGRAPHY:
Jim Mossman was raised in New York State, attended Middlebury College for two years and served in the Army for two years. He worked for the State of Vermont for thirty-eight years in the fields of transportation, data processing and geographic information systems. During that time art was an occasional hobby. Family, jobs, competitive shooting, local elected positions and house remodeling all took precedence.
in 2011, Jim and his wife Kate moved to Cody, Wyoming where his interest in art was rekindled. He credits the Buffalo Bill Center of the West's program "Learning From the Western Masters" as the major factor in his decision to turn to painting full time. Jim expanded his art education by taking oil painting and watercolor courses at Northwest College. He continued learning via workshops with artists such as; M.C. Poulsen, John Budicin, Denney Neville, Ned Mueller, Frank Serano, Ralph Oberg, John Potter, George Strickland and Jim Wilcox.
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