Dahlia #5 Painting

Born Ronald Charles Harris, Jr. After several years working in graphic design, he took to the studio to paint. Primarily working in oil, he occasionally creates conceptual pieces using mixed media. His works have been exhibited in Dallas at the East End Gallery and in Los Angeles at the Paramount Pictures Dining Room. His influences include but are not limited to Wassily Kandinsky, Lawren Harris, Georgia O'Keeffe and Authur Dove. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Kathy Trageser, and two sons. “I’ve always felt the need to understand the sense that there is a larger force at work in the universe. This mystical approach has become my style. Though my paintings tend toward the representational, I am creating landscapes from within; hoping to transcend biology, psychology or spirituality and instead portray a measure of all three. Painting didn’t come to me as a desire to create at first but as an exploration of color. My first efforts were less than representational and more expressionistic color patterns. As I evolved to more realistic imagery I always limited the context of foreground, background, etc, to the direct identification of the subject itself: river, tree, or flower and to isolation of colors and patterns. I hope to carry forward this choice to utilize strong images, refined to an essence, bringing forth artwork which is sublime and accessible.”