Featured Artist George Bundrick

Artist George Bundrick shares a collection of figurative paintings that capture a contemplative outdoor mood. View more artwork here.

 

 

As a painter based in Asheville, North Carolina, naturally my work is rooted in the outdoors. I focus on the connection between person and place, generally within my local landscape.

 

 

Living in the Blue Ridge Mountains has been an immensely formative part of my life, whether it be internal or external relationships. During times of intense turmoil or change, a reliable constant lies in the familiar rolling hills of Southern Appalachia.

 

 

I’ve spent countless hours trekking through the woods of Pisgah Forest, wading the creeks and watering holes within, scaling the rock faces that I pass, and generally taking every adventure possible. Within this outdoor setting, there’s nothing to stop me from confronting emotions and conflicts that I’m otherwise pushing away. Out in the valley, there’s time and space to feel it all.

 

 

I owe a great deal of my personal growth to my connection to nature. In the same vein, the people I’ve met in that setting are equally as essential to my being. During my time in this region, I’ve met some of the nearest and dearest figures of my life, who occupy an incredible amount of the love I have to give. These are people who I wouldn’t be the same without, whose friendships have helped me grow and love to my full capacity.

 

 

Naturally, my artwork tends to be an ode to the people and places who’ve made me the person I am. I paint gentle, quiet scenes of figures in the landscape, often in moments of contemplation, or compassion with another figure, all of which are the loved ones I’m speaking of. There’s a tenderness and intimacy to these connections that I try to honor through my handling of paint.

 

 

Edges get softened, colors are intense, but natural, and the gesture and flow of nature is preserved. More than anything, the emotional output comes from rendering faces and expressions of my figures, and how they relate to the environment around them.

 

 

We are constantly influenced by our surroundings, whether it be people or place, and I see my body of work as a love letter to the best of both.

 

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