"Long Gone"

casein  - $515.00  FRAMED

 

 

 Mussell Gatherer
$750

 

 

 

 

River View, landscape
$550

 

9 x 12, Rising Sun
$308

 

9 x 12  Rising Sun Vista

(Kathy Wells)

$285

 

9 x 12 South Milford River View
$310

 

 

 

On his first Plein Air painting trip to Indiana, Steve Wells met several members of IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Asociation, who were on their last paint out of the year.

 

After spending the weekend painting along side of these fellow artists, Steve was compelled to paint scenes of Ohio & Indiana.

 

Steve is from Milford, Ohio and is familiar with many of the wonderful & scenic locations of the Milford area.  His goal is to capture the essence of these locations by Plein Air painting them.

 

 Steve Wells is an native Ohio artist, who has been painting and drawing since childhood.  As a self taught artist his realistic portraits and landscapes captures the essence of the rural landscapes of Ohio..

His love of rural Ohio has been his main motivation for his Ohio series of Casein and Oil Paintings.  Steve’s delicate brush strokes and natural color palette are earthy and warm.  A Living history recorded in his paintings.

“I need to paint the living history in our country.  My Grandfather built a barn at his Mt. Orab, Ohio farm.  He ran out of cut timbers and felled saplings from his land and used them as  beams in the barn.  You can still see the saw blades on the saplings.  My Grandfathers handwork is visible and real, a living history….” 

“My hands, my Grandfathers hands guiding me in a surreal sort of way, need to recreate that time and place.  I want my painting to be alive. 
A living painting, when you have done that, you have done something.”

Steve Wells paintings are currently on display at Row House Gallery in Milford, OH