GORDY EDBERG
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BIO
Langley, Washington artist, Gordon Edberg, is most noted for his expressions of the landscape and environments of the Pacific Northwest. His work has been focused on this area for more than thirty years.
He paints mostly in oil and with oil bar on canvas. Many works also incorporate graphite and pastel. He likes to introduce calligraphy and incise marks into his paintings. The combination line and shapes are often recognizable in much of his work. Inspired by the landscape, he creates images that recall mood and express feelings of location with an expressionistic style that avoids photorealism.
Many of his paintings are created en plein air (on site) and ala prima (completed in one time). He uses many of these paintings for in studio work of larger sizes recalling the mood and feeling originally witnessed. He exaggerates (pushes) color and in many works introduces unexpected color to heighten the paintings effect.
Gordy has sought inspiration through travels in the Northwest, Northeast and Southwest areas of the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, British Columbia, Mexico, the Caribbean, Ireland, France, Italy and Greece.
Affiliations include: Whidbey Island Arts Council Board, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Northwest Pastel Society, Plein Air Painters of Washington, Oil Painters of America, Langley Artists Connect and Whidbey Island Woodworkers Guild.