Art Chowder September | October 2016, Issue 5 | Page 10

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What is your favorite childhood memory?

I loved growing up, my large family, my brothers and
sisters and their friends constantly coming and going.
Growing up in Sioux Falls in the late 1950’s and 1960’s
was a time of carefree after school play and adventure.
I would come home from school; change my clothes
and head out the door, usually to my best friend David’s
house. We knew many of the neighborhood kids and
during the summer we would often play softball, creating our own team, dying t-shirts for our team uniform
and trying to find another neighborhood team to play
against. We also headed up to “trees” where we would
make forts, have dirt clod wars, using old tire tubes to
make sling shots so we could bombard our enemies with
soft dirt clods...or, we would camp out. On Halloween
we were out the door at 6 and home at 9 with a pillowcase filled with candy. Parents never went with their
kids...thousands of kids ran from door to door trying to
gather as much candy as possible and still be home by 9.
What fun. The fun memories of growing up are endless.
Are there certain subjects that you are
particularly drawn to for inspiration?
I like painting portraits, landscape and Venice, Italy.
I actually like nearly any and all subjects. Portraits are
more difficult to sell, but I like landscape and portrait
equally. In landscape and Venice, I like low light, moody
atmosphere paintings. I like subjects that evoke quietness, thoughtfulness...stillness. How the light, the
lighting, and the light source affect the subject is hugely
important in my effort to get the mood I desire, with
portraits as well as landscape.
What is the name and location of the favorite
place you have exhibited your work?
I don’t believe I have a favorite exhibition space...if I had to
choose, it would be my home. I do a home exhibition every year
in early December. It’s nice to be home while exhibiting my
work, for people to see where I live, my studio.
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