Eric Charles Olmstead

Instead of touching upon the physical and visual aspects of a “journey” based on what the eye can see, I prefer to capture transcendent elements…primarily what the heart can feel.
 
It all began the day I decided to leave Los Angeles and live as a nomadic world traveler. Today, after a decade of “inspired revelation” as a result of my travels, along with my innate passion as an artist and having many stories to tell, I am ready to share my work. 
 

To date, I’ve traveled to 50 countries and have lived in many of them.   I’ve accumulated eleven sketchbooks filled with collaged artwork and writings.  It’s been profound and humbling to witness each sketchbook come to life and evolve as much as I personally have over the years in the course of my travels.
 
Using these books as reference material and as a “time machine” transporting me back to the land of my adventures, I want to relate what it is like to be at these places and at that juncture at that very point in time.  Rather than merely duplicating what I observed, I want the viewer to ”co-inhabit”  those fleeting sensations with me…falling in love with an enchanting beauty in Colombia, circling the country of Taiwan by bike, meeting locals and walking the night markets, be...