Kent Lovelace

Nationally recognized Pacific Northwest artist Kent Lovelace (1953 – 2017) created masterful oil paintings, lithographs and watercolors during his life long career. Beginning in 2001, Lovelace primarily painted with oils on copper plates, a tradition uncommon among contemporary artists, but dating back to the early Renaissance. The reflective quality of the copper enhances the inherent luminosity of oil paint and it provides a rosy warmth or under-painting upon which the artist layered oil pigments to create subtle shifts of color and various atmospheric effects. Alternating between pure landscapes and bird subjects, Lovelace created works inspired by France, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, as well as the Northwest. He wrote, “I find myself drawn to land that has been cultivated continuously for thousands of year, where people seem to live in harmony with nature away from the intrusions of modern technologies.”

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