Join us on Saturday, May 5th for our General meeting and a demo by Clive Tyler. No meeting fee for members, $5 for non-members.
Meeting/demo to be held at the Thousand Oaks Branch Library, 4618 Thousand Oaks, in San Antonio. Meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. ( library opens at 10 a.m.). Go west about one mile on Thousand Oaks once you exit IH 35 and library will be on your left.
Clive R. Tyler Bio 2012
PO Box 3497, Taos NM 87571
970-217-0385
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Clive R. Tyler was raised in an
encouraging artistic atmosphere. He studied Fine Art and Design at
Kent State University (Ohio) with a double major and was awarded a
Bachelors of Fine Art Degree. Twenty years later after a successful
design career, he is now known as one of the best Pastelist on a
national level.
Living in Taos, New Mexico, he is
seriously painting with integrity and seeking the truth in his
subject matter. His goals set, he has in just a few years moved
quickly into the art scene, having received invitationals at national
museums and acceptance with both galleries and collectors. His
classical oil painting style is unique for pastel painting. With
strong composition and attention to lighting, each painting has its
own special emotional connection with the viewer.
As a Plein Air and Studio artist, I
paint in natural surroundings and out in the open; define as the word
Plein air. I have always been inspired by nature and the quiet in the
wilderness. I have been painting in Rocky Mountain National Park in
Colorado for 10 years now and love the Winter Park, Co area too. I
travel to Montana and Oregon to paint as well. Rivers, snow scenes,
tall aspens, moose and elk are all on the list of work that I enjoy
painting. Live oaks from the Southeast are on my new list of great
trees to paint.
I wish to share the outdoor experience
that I have had with the artist or my interpretation of an
impressionist point of view. As an artist, I am painting the
experience, not a reproduction of the view. I want to have the
viewer want to step into the painting, look around the corner, feel
like they are looking up at the aspens, feel the temperature of the
day, sense a feeling of the time, hear the sounds of leaves and
thunder in the distant storm. Through color harmony, pastel pigment,
texture, and a strong concept with good design and composition, I
convey this to the viewer and evoke some memories or desires. When
viewers say, "I know where that is" " I feel like I
want to walk in there and take a hike in the aspens" or " I
wish I was there” that is a successful painting.
I paint in Soft Pastel on a sanded
paper from Germany. The pastels I use are a French brand called
Sennelier. It's a dry form of pigment/paint. This brand was created
for Degas and Monet. Some of the colors are the same. Pastel is made
of pure pigment or ore and stone so the colors glow with a luminas
feeling. I use to be an oil painter so I'm very loose in placing
color, enjoy under painting, and using edges and emotional strokes in
my painting. Up close the paintings take on an abstract feeling but
from 10 feet away it looks like your looking through a window to the
world outside. All my paintings are professionally framed with a type
of museum glass that has minimum refection.
My work will be a collection of studio
work taken from my experiences in nature of landscapes and wildlife
in the four different seasons. I add wildlife to some of my paintings
if I have had the experience or seen a similar view. Many times I'm
painting outdoors and a hundred elk have surrounded me and walk
around me grazing and not even noticing me. It's a great feeling to
be accepted by nature and not to be an intruder. I have had a mother
moose and calf walk by my easel, I have stood and watch a heard of
bison run through tall grass with the Tetons in the background as if
I was back in time or in a movie. When you are standing outside in
one spot painting for hours, something will walk or fly by. I had an
eagle sit and watch me paint once in Alaska and I have watched a hawk
build a nest in the Colorado aspens. So I wish the viewer to
understand that the paintings that I produce are an authentic
experiences that they can take home and enjoy and cherish nature as
if they where there too.
"Every place, every corner, every
view -- It's all just inspiration, timing and light. On one day, in
the evening or in the early morning, or looking from the top of a
mountain something marvelous happens -- the conditions are ideal and
the world is enhanced. This only happens once and it's never quite
the same again. This is what I look for:
"I have to be there and then I
paint."
Clive R. Tyler
