Art Opening:
Mark Kerckhoff April 2, 2005
Visit us on Saturday, April 2nd at the Casa 'La Paz' Plant Store to view work by Mark Kerckhoff. Here's an excerpt from his bio:
Mark Kerckhoff paints nature and creates beauty in the manner of a master. His art, highly regarded in southern California for nearly thirty years, is at once inspired and inspirational. The time he spends out doors is transferred from his eye, to his heart, to hand, to brush, to canvas; then conveyed to the eye of the beholder... and to their heart. Incredibly, through the use of color, light, composition, and depth, Mark's paintings carry the viewer to the time and place of the piece, or even to a different time and place that only the viewer can know. Like the scenes depicted, Mark's paintings are fresh and new at each encounter; the kind of art you can live with and relate with every day, definitely not static, very much alive.
Kerckhoff's work is entirely genuine, authentic, and completely true to the plein air tradition. Needless to say, at the technical level, he is highly respected among many fine artists and collectors. But Mark's work is most sought after at levels far deeper than style and technique. Nature in miniature, as expressed at the hands of a master, "lives" with you. An original Kerckhoff, unlike the stray rock or feather on your desk, embodies more than a mere remnant or snapshot of a time and place in nature. An original Kerckhoff bares the personality, the essence, the changing moods, and the significance of natural California. And nature is never static.
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