Chas Martin
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Chas Martin integrates the spontaneity and directness of plein air painting with the detail and complexity of studio painting to create atmospheric images. After studies at Pratt Institute in New York City, he worked Boston and San Francisco ad agencies by day and painted by night. In 1980 he pursued painting full time. He moved on to dimensional work, exploring sculpture, collage and box art. In 1981 he discovered the Columbia Gorge and moved to Hood River where he lived until 1998. In recent years, inspired by his studies of Thomas Moran, Fredrick Church, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent, he focused his attention on watercolor as he hiked wilderness areas throughout the west. Martin is a former instructor at Boston Art Institute, San Francisco Academy of Art, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Northwest Academy and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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