Gallery Exhibition
Featured Event
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Art Displays October 7th - 26th
Join one artist's daunting challenge to paint something from all 75 counties of his homestate. This exhibition will include selected paintings from John D. Wooldridge's on-going challenge with a focus on the Arkansas River Valley and the Ozarks.
John prefers to paint with oils because he enjoys the ability to move and manipulate the oil on the canvas.He is driven by the beauty of natue and the place of humans within it. He has a predilection for those themes which were familiar to him in his childhood. Streams, rivers, and bodies of water hold a particular fascination as do small towns and the fading remnants of our civilization, so quickly reclaimed by the land.
"I am a native Arkansan with deep roots in Newton and Searcy Counties. I spent many hours of my formative years drawing and roaming on our 200 acre cattle farm and adjacent neighbors' land in Boone and Marion Counties. I indulged a love of art and a desire to learn to paint as a very young teen by taking my only lessons in Harrison, AR. Aside from these lessons and the odd workshop now and then, I am self taught. After receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas, I moved my young family to the suburbs of Washington D.C. to pursue a career with NASA. I have designed, built, and operated systems in orbit around Earth and soon to be on their way to Mars. I currently reside in Maumelle, Arkansas"
