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BIOGRAPHY, EVENTS, and AWARDS
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C.S. Talley
portrays Joseph Henry Sharp
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Artist's Biography C. S. “Steve” Talley developed an art interest not long after graduating with a degree in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. Juggling a career in the sciences and ultimately computer programming, his art skills continued to improve by taking workshops from primarily plein air artists. Talley’s style of impressionistic realism continues to evolve as he explores color from bold to tonal to nocturne. He takes artistic license to push a color or include a compositional element to accomplish his goal of creating the intangible “strong emotional content”. Beginning as a portrait painter he has evolved to become primarily a western landscape painter. He also enjoys painting astronomical and religious themes. His main influences come from Paul Strisik, Edgar Payne, Chauncey Foster Ryder, James Reynolds, and Will Sparks. Every year, Steve travels from his Winter home in Fredericksburg, Texas to his Summer home in Taos, New Mexico. He often travels to Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, his wife's native home, searching for inspiring vistas. Plein Air Painters New Mexico (PAPNM) and the Plein Air Painters of Taos. He has had one-man shows at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House and has exhibited at the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City. Talley also teaches landscape painting and is one of the authors of "Paint Fredericksburg, Texas : A Guide for Plein Air Painters". He has been happily married to Ginette for 40 years and they have two children.
Taos Plein Air Painters Art Studies:
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Artist's Statement The Western American landscape has commanded my attention ever since my first trip "out west" from my home on the South Texas coast. The coastal plains gave me the appreciation for being able to see across great expanses and the Rocky Mountains showed me the infinite diverse forms of the land beyond the flat plains. Within the landscape is the human element. I think of these elements as subservient to the greater landscape in which they must exist. Barns, adobe homes, and plowed fields are all evidence of our human attempt to either cooperate with or control the raw landscape. It is this dominating landscape that I attempt to convey with each painting. With every painting I start, I intend for it to convey to the viewer the emotions that I experience when viewing the scene. Perhaps the viewer will have a different emotion but my hope is that it will be a strong and positive one. My growth as an artist owes its debt to these attempts to instill emotion into a painting and from this viewpoint artistic growth is a journey with no end. |
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Upcoming and Current Shows
Ongoing at these Galleries Past Shows 2022 - June 28 to Aug 7 - One Man Show at the Nicolai Fechin Studio, Taos , New Mexico (Taos Art Museum at Fechin House)
2019 - July - Wild Rivers Plein Air Festival - Questa, Red River, New Mexico
2018 - April - Artist of the Month at the Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, TX. 2017 - November - Cate-Zane Fine Things, Fredericksburg, TX - Featured Artist
2016 - December - Cate-Zane Fine Things, Fredericksburg, TX - Featured Artist
2015 - September 4: One Man Show at Fredericksburg Art Gallery : Reception 5pm
to 8pm ; Demos on Sept. 5
2008 Nomadas del Arte: Plein Air Show and Sale: Southwest Gallery, Dallas TX:
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