Title: Turpentine Cello
Medium: pastel on paper
dimensions: 6.5″x10″
These pieces convey so much mood. Aaron has a real talent for abstracting landscape. He draws you in to these impressionist rainy street scenes with light, color, and tone.
Aaron is a prolific emerging artist from Bountiful, Utah, who works in both pastel and oil. He has studied under one of our well known artists, landscape painter Michael Workman. Aaron paints both traditional and urban landscape – but both with a contemporary flair.
Title: Indigo Chaser
Medium: pastel on paper
dimensions: 6.5″x10″
If you are interested in either of these fantastic small works and would like more info (pricing, etc) please contact us. Also, if you are interested in seeing his more traditional works, we are happy to assist.
“I paint because I love to paint; I need to paint. I have things that I wish to communicate, and sometimes pictures are the best way of doing that. My favored mediums are oil and pastel. I have always had a fascination with impressionist painters.
I am intrigued by urban areas ignored by current culture. I have an unusual interest in freeways, refineries, and other industrial parts in and around Utah. These areas attract me purely for reasons of curiosity. I want to know how these areas contribute to and affect our world. These urban fixtures create the things we consume and are necessary for our current survival. I see these areas as the gritty source of the luxuries we enjoy. Many people do not see this seemingly absurd subject matter as beautiful. These areas of our own creation and they surround us. I see beauty in these areas because I must try to see beauty in the world, beauty is the core reason I continue to exist…”
To learn more about Aaron Bushnell and see more of his works, click HERE .