"Song of the Wind"Death Valley National Park
Hulan Fleming
Oil, 15" x 30"
"Last Light"
Death Valley National Park
Hulan Fleming
Oil, 12" x 24"
$2,200
This is Hulan Fleming's third year to be awarded entry in Paint the Parks100. He is best known for his paintings and prints of western art, Native American art, wildlife, landscape, seascape and astronomy subjects. For Hulan the love of art has always been there, so, in his middle teens his parents signed him up with “Art Instruction”, a Commercial Art course out of Minneapolis. This was interrupted when he was drafted in 1953. He then served in the 83rd engineers in France as Company Painter. While on leave he toured parts of Italy, France and England.
Hulan decided to go to Seattle Pacific University in the fall of 1957. After completing his Physics degree in June of 1965, he taught Jr. High Science for 3 years. During that time he joined Gallery North, and completed about 10 paintings selling 6 of them at his first show. This and other significant things encouraged him to change careers in 1968.
Those influencing him in the early years were Andrew Wyeth, Harold Lyon, Fred Oldfield and others. It was Fred Oldfield who encouraged him to go to the Western Art Auctions. It was at the First National Western Art Show & Auction in Ellensburg where he received his first award for his first cowboy painting. Since then he has become an accomplished professional artist, and sells his paintings all over the U.S.
Hulan describes his work as realistic impressionism, not truly historical to detail but bearing the spiritual idea of the place. His oils are done on hard board (Masonite type), which is an excellent surface and has been age tested to survive 600 or more years.
For the future, his interests are leaning towards the Plein Air (painting on site) and more impressionism. It will be interesting to watch and see what he will paint next.
Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org
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