The Art of R. Geoffrey Blackburn

 

 

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"Indian Summer"

 



8th Annual Sale & Exhibition
Pearce Museum
Corsicana, Texas 

March 30th-May 12th 2012


R. Geoffrey Blackburn, IGOR, WAA, ASTA*

Oil Paintings: 1970 - 2012

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Indian Summer" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Red Canyon, Lander" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Dead Horse Autumn-Approaching Storm" oil painting" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Walking Wild" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Castle Tower 2.0" oil painting index
R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Pelicans Rising" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Road to Sedona" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Desert Rules" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "What's Left" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Sedona Morning" oil painting index
R. Geoffrey Blackburn Spires of Zion oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Two in the Bush"  oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Stalking Cougar" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Canyon Jewel" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Desert Canynos" serigraph index
R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Knobs" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Red Dawn" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Soaring the Colorado" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Teton Dawn 2.0" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Hovering Specter" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Floating Bird" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Red Desert" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Red Canyons" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Desert Spires" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Bryce Canyon" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Temple Mountain" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "High Desert Summer" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Round Mountain 2.0" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Dead Horse Winter" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Zion Dawn" oil painting index

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R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Sedona Burbs" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Castle valley Thunder" oil painting index 0 R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Moab Autumn" oil painting index R. Geoffrey Blackburn "The Duck Club" oil painting index

 

International Guild of Realism’s

Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition

at the J. Willott Gallery, in Palm Desert, CA.

 

R. Geoffrey Blackburn - Awarded

Best Landscape for "Desert Rules”

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R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Miners on the Edge" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Spaced Miners" oil painting index

Spaced Miners Series

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Chemically Challenged Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Farout Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Dangerously Spaced Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Homesick Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Aspiring Republican Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "High Energy Miners" oil painting index

R. Geoffrey Blackburn "Homesick Republican Miners"oil painting index

 

Artist's Statement:

 ”I have always been fascinated by the incredible diversity and often unearthly beauty of western landscapes.  I have crawled over the mountains and deserts staking mining claims and prospecting for gold, silver and uranium. I have also been a ski racer and a ski instructor and so I am enamored with both alpine and desert landscapes in all seasons. Some of my earliest paintings were of lakes and mountains, prospectors, cowboys and skiers (the latter, usually rendered in electric colors). But when I first visited Moab, Canyonlands and Arches (in Utah), I was truly smitten–artistic juices flowing!  The geological marvels I encountered there just blew me away! I could have been on another planet! While my friends were wearing suits hunkered down in offices, I was lucky enough to spend more than a decade prospecting and exploring in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho.

 

I also continued with my art, sketching and photographing as Al Dart and I trekked the wild lands prospecting,  drilling, staking claims and doing deals. Between forays to our various properties I would return to my studio and paint. If I had a thousand life times, I could never begin to paint even a fraction of the wonders I have seen. I was so inspired that I even created and patented a new user-interactive art form to try to capture some of what I experienced. Since the early 1970's I have focused my art mostly on southwest red rock desert landscapes. I have recently begun anew to paint other western landscapes as well shifting my focus to more alpine vistas including those around the Jackson Hole area.

 

I try to paint a scene the way you remember it as opposed to the way it really is. I want the viewer to be able to go into the scene and explore the various spaces–to feel like he or she is actually there. I want the viewer to see something new every time he or she looks at one of my paintings. The tight detail in my work makes this possible. With looser more "painterly" work, the viewer is stopped at the surface of the painting. I tend to paint "thin"– that is to say I use very little paint, layering thin transparent colors on top of each other to achieve the effect I am seeking.  This approach lets the viewer look into the paint.  I plan on resuming my work in my new art form this year.  More on this in later…"

 

R. Geoffrey Blackburn


Member of the following Art Societies:

*IGOR= International Guild of Realism; WAA= Western Artists of America; ASTA= American Society of Traditional Artists*

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