Canyon River by Paul Davis (bio below)

Image Size 33 x 22 

Paper Size 36 x 26

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Paul Davis

Born in Oklahoma in 1948, Paul Davis became interested in painting in high school. Under the watchful eye of Montee Hoke, he learned some of the basics in drawing and painting. After a couple of years in college, and three and a half years in the Navy, Paul and Hoke would meet again at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. This was the beginning of a long and lasting friendship. "Although Montee worked in clay, his strong sense of design and his constant encouragement kept me pursuing my painting," Paul has said. Hoke's greatest influence as a teacher and friend were during the yearly fishing trips to Colorado in May. It was at this time, while standing in the presence of one of Mother Nature's greatest works, that lengthy discussion of what she had to offer was analyzed.

In 1974, Paul moved to Albuquerque, N.M. It was at this time that he began to see nature's variety of color. This was a learning period for Paul. "I tried everything from abstract to realism in painting. Working with clay and glazes, and doing some prints. I didn't accomplish much." In 1981, he decided to finish his degree in Oklahoma (again, the encouragement of Hoke) and in 1983 Paul was accepted in the graduate program at Arizona State University. After two years, he decided that he wasn't interested in what ASU had to offer. After leaving "with a bad taste in my mouth," he quit painting and became a pharmacy technician at the Phoenix VA MED CENTER. It was here that he met his wife Donna. Being a pharmacy tech wasn't to last. After three years, Paul had to have his third heart surgery, and retired from the VA service. After his recovery, Donna started encouraging Paul to start painting again.

"I now have found my direction and I couldn't be happier," Paul says. He rarely includes a human presence in his work, and the few times that he does will only be a distant farmhouse or a lonely road or a pattern of fields. He prefers to express the feeling of being the first to view a scene or vista and from that experience attempt to depict what his emotions dictate.