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 Stapleton Kearns (born 1952 in Rochester, Minnesota).

Stapleton Kearns has been painting full time since the mid 1970s. An established professional painter, he has made his living as an artist for thirty years. Stapleton grew up in Minnesota, studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota. Neither was teaching what he wanted to learn, which was traditional painting.

 

He moved to Boston in 1973 and studied in the studio of R.H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981). A student of major American impressionist William Paxton, Ives passed on his art training to nearly 40 students over a period of almost 50 years. This was private instruction conducted at the historic Fenway studios in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

In 1983 Stapleton moved to Rockport, Massachusetts and opened his first art gallery. Rockport is a historic art colony and Stapleton had the opportunity to know and learn from an older generation of artists. They taught him the methods and ideas of the Cape Ann school of landscape painting. Stapleton was elected President of the Rockport Art Association and held that position for five years.

 

For nearly ten years Stapleton has lived in New Hampshire. Stape, as his friends call him, writes a blog about painting that receives thousands of visitors each month. The blog serves as an extensive online tutorial for those wishing to know more about traditional landscape painting. He also teaches workshops across the country.

 

Stapleton specializes in landscapes that are painted on location, but are often finished in the studio. His work is available from select galleries.

                  7th Annual Snowcamp Workshop

Stapleton is teaching his 7th annual Snowcamp workshop at the Inn on Sunset Hill in Franconia N.H. on Saturday the 5th through Monday the 7th of March, 2016.
 

                                  Career Highlights

-Member of the Guild of Boston Artists, he also serves on the board of directors and is chairman of membership. At the annual members exhibition in 2014 Stapleton won the top prize, the Edmund Tarbell award.

-Member of Rockport Art Association, Rockport Massachusetts, was president for five years.

 

-Stapleton has done dozens of painting demonstrations for art organizations and taught workshops all over the country.

 

-Stapleton has juried dozens of shows, some national, like the Hoosier Salon in Indianapolis.

-The artist has made his living via his art for thirty plus years, putting two children through private school. 

-Stapleton studied painting in the mid 1970s with the late R.H. Ives Gammell at the Fenway studios in Boston.

 

-The artist left high school early in order to more fully participate in the 1960's.

 

-Stapleton wrote a thousand plus entries to his blog, http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/

-Stapleton's artworks have been shown in galleries across the nation, including in the invitational exhibit this year and last at the Walls Gallery in The Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulpher Springs West Virginia.

-The artist tagged along behind a generation of Cape Ann Artists now deceased.

 

-Stapleton has been contracted to write a book on painting for Pequod Books.

 

-The artist ran his own art Gallery in Rockport, Massachusetts for 16 years.

 

-Stapleton has mentored a number of younger aspiring painters and was himself mentored by Robert Douglas Hunter.