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Kevin
Macpherson one of the country’s leading plein air painters, is
highly respected among collectors and fellow artists alike. Past
President of the Plein Air Painters of America, Kevin is a popular
instructor throughout the country and abroad. His painting workshops
are highly attended, often selling out years in advance. Kevin is
sought after as an art judge, curator and speaker around the
country.
Now in its ninth printing, Macpherson’s painting instruction book,
Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color, has been translated
into the Chinese language and has quickly become a best-seller for
publisher North Light Books. Kevin's clear, concise teaching method
has inspired and directed thousands of plein air painters.
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Born in 1956, this artist’s work is nationally recognized and
collected, having attracted the attention of major art collectors,
including Roy Rose, the grand-nephew of acclaimed California plein
air painter Guy Rose. Kevin has won numerous national awards,
including so many in national Oil Painters of America competitions
that he is the first artist in the organization to be elevated from
Signature Member status to that of Master Signature Member.
Kevin excels in his ability to paint all subject matter: landscape,
still life, and figurative works. Using spontaneous brushwork and
candid color, Kevin’s work reveals his interpretive and creative
virtuosity. He easily manipulates the elements of an artist’s
"visual toolbox" to capture the mood of his subject, whether it be
the dramatic light of southern France, the rugged beauty of the
California coast, or the brilliance of dappled light through a
floral still life. Kevin’s work has been featured in many national
magazines, Art of the West, Art Talk, U. S. Art, Wildlife Art and
gracing the covers of Southwest Art, American Artist, International
Artist, and The Artist’s Magazine. Contributing editor to Southwest
Art Magazine, author of "The Artist’s Voice, 2000". In addition to
numerous gallery exhibitions, he has shown at the Gilcrease Museum,
the Arizona State Capital and the Albuquerque Museum. The Haggin
Museum, Stockton, CA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena,
CA, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM, Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County, National Wildlife Museum, Jackson, WY, Carnegie Art
Museum, California, Forbes Museum, New York City, NY.
He has also
authored two books,
Landscape Painting - Inside & Out and REFLECTIONS ON A POND
A VISUAL JOURNAL.
Kevin now makes his home in the mountains of Taos, New Mexico,
merging his influences from years in Arizona with his childhood
memories of New Jersey. Bitten with wanderlust, Kevin and his wife
Wanda can be seen anywhere in the world painting en plein air.
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