Richard Gombar

I am an American painter of my environment. Where once art needed nature to survive, we now need art to help nature survive. While not politically motivated, in a sense, because I paint nature, both in the studio and outdoors, it is a political and environmental statement. I paint to capture beauty, to hold forever a passing moment, to memorialize that which may b efleeting, or in the case of barns, falling. If my paintings, pastels and drawings help more people become aware of what may be potentially lost, can invoke in people a sense of wonder as in childhood, and can be emotionally moving and provoking, then a statement, a profound impact may be the result. It is a search for truth without sentimentality. My work is of nature, but just as important, it is about painting, color, structure. They are about Romanticism, transcendentalism and pure emotion. I am trying to make the immense intimate.

Richard Gombar

Richard Gombar