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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
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"Early Spring Pastures"
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Feature Artist Bio
ARTIST'S OFFICIAL BIO
http://www.kylebuckland.com/about.html
Kyle Buckland's
OFFICIAL WEBSITE http://www.kylebuckland.com/
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by American landscape painter Kyle Buckland (born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware).
Kyle lives with his family in the southern region of the Appalachian Mountains. Painting has always been his passion and his true calling. Kyle explains that art is a language to communicate that which cannot be communicated through any other language: "It's the soul in the exterior of all things. It relies on love, beauty and passion to exist, three things which are crucial to our well-being as humans. To me art is everything."
His talents in painting and drawing were recognized at a very young age, and Kyle was encouraged by his family and teachers to seriously explore the possibilities of art at around age 15. After painting nonstop throughout his high school years, real life came along and Kyle needed to make a living so he began working as a scenic artist painting backdrops for a theater in his hometown. Working on sets for plays was a wonderful experience for Kyle as it allowed him to express some of his artistic yearnings and get a regular paycheck. But something was missing. That something was the complete freedom to do what he had always known he was meant to do...create masterpieces! Kyle met his wife Jennifer who is also an artist and they took a leap of faith and both quit their full-time jobs to make a living solely off of their art. "It was rough at times but each year has been better than the last, and we love a good challenge," Kyle explains.
Now Kyle's work has been recognized by national publications on plein air painting and featured at outdoorpainter.com, home of Plein Air Magazine, on three different occasions in articles concerning contemporary impressionism. He has garnered many awards and his work hangs in hundreds of private and corporate collections in the US and around the world. No serious collector should overlook the raw talent and passion in Kyle's work. He is inevitably one of our next great American Impressionist painters!
A link to Kyle and Jennifer's art:
Gallery #337
April 6, 2016
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Kyle Buckland (Born 1984)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“Many things pass in the course of a day" - Robert Henri
"This quote by the American painter, Robert Henri, is both simply stated yet full of complexities. It is also the reason I am an artist. Many things do pass in the course of a day, some wonderful, some tragic, but as they pass they leave impressions on us. They tug and pull at our emotions; they bring us to a state of elation or move us through the depths of sorrow. Then they are gone and other things come to pass. I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to immerse myself in these things, extract the emotion, and capture it in the form of a painting. So although I paint many things such as landscapes, still lives, figures, what I’m actually painting is the impression these things are leaving on me in the form of an emotional response. Hopefully I will be able to convey this emotion to the viewer and awaken a desire in them to go deeper into their own experiences.”
