Description | Size | Price |
Oil on Linen |
18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm) | $67,500 |
Giclée Print | 18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm) | inquire |
Giclée Print: (Artist's Proof) | 18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm) | inquire |
Custom sizes and formats available contact: rgeoffrey@rgeoffrey.com
"Highest Award of Recognition"
7th Annual Paint the Parks Competition
The Coutts Museum of Art
El Dorado, Kansas
"Walking Wild "
"This Walking Wild version is a significant upgrade of
the Autumn Trail painting, which came about after of a trip to Arches
National Park near Moab, Utah in 2004. My wife Jean and I
were hiking around the area on a beautiful October morning.
I kept stopping and taking pictures of the landscape
(hundreds of them as it turned out). Everywhere I looked was
magical. Just another day in red rock canyon country!
When I returned to my studio I uploaded my photos onto
my computer where they sat on my hard drive until mid
January 2006 when I rediscovered them and began sketching
and finally painting. I worked on this painting for a few
weeks along with two other pieces. I wasn't certain if I
liked the piece enough to finish it so I stopped working on
it in March. I was pretty sure I was going to abandon the
piece altogether and use the canvas for another painting. It
sat unfinished and unloved in a corner of my studio until
November when a couple of visitors saw the piece and told me
how much they liked it. So, in light of this and some other
favorable comments I had, I reevaluated the work and resumed
painting on it in December. I finally finished the Autumn
Trail version on January 2007, a year almost to the day
after I began. It took 232 hours 20 minutes to paint (a form
of self-flagellation). However, I was never very happy with
the results, but it looked good enough to hang in various
galleries from Jackson Hole to Scottsdale. When I pulled my
art from all my galleries in 2009, the painting languished
in my art storage room until early 2011 when I finally
figured out what was bothering me about the piece: the red
rock looked way too pink and the trail needed something more
exciting than just a hidden fox and a lizard. What it needed
was wild horses which are indigenous to the Moab area (think
Dead Horse Point). I realized that wild horses had probably
trod the very "autumn trail" I had originally
painted-perhaps many times over the decades! So, after a
significant investment of time and energy, I made the
changes. I like the result and hope you do too. If you have
not been to Moab, you have really missed something!"
From this revised original oil painting, I have produced a
limited edition giclée print on canvas and on paper. "
R. Geoffrey Blackburn