Phone: (707) 239-1785
Email:
tcreedfineart@gmail.com
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Current Exhibits
ART Trails
Gallery at Corrick's
637 Fourth St.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
707-546-2424
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Collectors
and Commissions
Museum of Sonoma
County, Santa Rosa, CA
Sutter Health, Santa Rosa, CA
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa, CA
Fountain Grove Resort, Santa Rosa, CA
Groth Winery, Napa, CA
Petrified Forest, Calistoga, CA
United Anglers - Casa Grande High School,
Petaluma, CA
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Publications
& Grants
Plein Air
Magazine
Featured Artist
July 2005
Southwest Art Magazine
Featured Artist
December 2001
Grant awarded from Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Inc.
New York, NY 1998
Featured on Sonoma State University
Catalog
Santa Rosa, CA 1998
Artist-in-Residence
Press House
Gallery
Buena Vista Winery
Sonoma, CA
June 1997 - July 1997
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Art Education
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA 1986
Missouri
Southern College
Joplin, MO 1972-1974
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Memberships
Oil Painters of America
Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
Valley of the Moon Art Association
Sonoma, CA
Sonoma Museum of Visual Art
Santa Rosa, CA
Honorary member of the United
Anglers of Casa Grande for
mural donation
Petaluma, CA
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Ensuing
40 years of creating art, I’ve come to the realization that
art, painting in particular, is the core of my life. It
consumes me, yet
inspires me.
Art is arguably the core and foundation of our society and
culture. Dating back thousands of years to Petroglyphs,
Hieroglyphs, languages and dialects, art developed our
humanity, evolved our societies and advanced our
civilizations. Pictures allowed us to communicate while
symbols ignited a consciousness. Art is a universal language,
symbolic for all languages. Throughout history, it has been
used as an instrument to inform, communicate, entertain and
inspire.
Nature is filled with inspiration. It captures our imagination
and stirs our soul. Inner peace abounds in the calm of nature,
while rejuvenating the mind, restoring our body and renewing
ones spirit. Nature holds the power to take our breath away
and offers us purpose. The sound of a mountain stream brings
comfort and joy, the screech of a soaring hawk instills
freedom, as a breeze from the wind conveys ease and solace.
Strength transpires through mountains, trees reveal solidity
and might, and skies are unearthly. Nature is to behold with
all our senses.
Art and nature posses a symbiotic relationship -an organic and
quantum connection. This connection helped create and define
our civilization, and is undeniably an essential element of
our lives.
I have loved the natural world since I can remember and have
always been an artist at heart. My passion is to enlighten,
inspire and promote the value of art through the influence of
nature and to reveal the philosophical connection of both art
and nature.
My "formal" training of art began in high school. I
went on to complete two years at Missouri Southern State in
1974 with an art major. While I established a career outside
the art field, I was compelled to continue studying art in my
spare time, invariably experimenting with different styles and
techniques.
In 1986, I committed to an art career by attending the San
Francisco Art Institute, which had a tremendous influence on
me. My paintings from that era reflect a studious arsenal of
artistic ideas manifested from living in
San Francisco
and attending the Art Institute.
It was not until I moved to
Sonoma
County
in 1993
that I became enlivened by nature again and started painting
landscapes full-time. Working from my studio in
Windsor
as well as painting out doors in Plein Air, I paint
primarily in oil, continuing-with great respect-the classical
tradition of the Barbizon masters.
My paintings have been referred to as realism, yet that style
does not capture the most fundamental aspect of my work -to
induce a deep sensory response from the viewer. I challenge
the viewer to become part of the landscape in a style I refer
to as "Romantic-Realism". Working from
detailed notes and sketches, I translate the essence of each
scene's mood onto canvas—fog nestled atop an oak-studded
valley, morning sunlight fingering across an inland marsh,
afternoon shadows lengthening through coastal brush— sharing
not only the visual rendering of nature, but also the powerful
and vital energy it evokes.
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