As an artist I consider myself a landscape painter...
I spent 40 years working and painting, in the watercolor media,
out of my studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bonnie, my wife, also an artist, and I now spend winters in Mesa, Arizona.
We spend every summer traveling,
painting, visiting galleries,and writing our families histories.
The above paintings, for the most part,
are Watercolors painted while living
in Kansas City
As we travel the U.S. from San Diego to Rockland, Maine,
from Key West to Seattle, I'm always looking for the next painting
When we left Kansas City, unable to paint large watercolors, I started
painting small Plein Aire oils and acrylics...
Below look at some of the 8x10 oils...
David S. Clow was born in Lamar, Missouri April 26, 1940. And spent most of his youth in the Joplin, Springfield areas of Missouri.
He becoming interested in art at an early age he began taking watercolor lessons from a commercial artist, at fourteen he enrolled in a commercial art school in Minn. Minnesota.
His formal training was received at Kansas State at Pittsburg, Kansas, and the Kansas City Art Institute majoring in Fine Art. At this time he painted in the non-objective style, and worked summers with an earlier sculptor instructor on several large concrete and steel pieces for the Chicago Art Institute. Discovering the invaluable properties of private instruction he has since studied with Kansas City artist Frank Sawz and many others in his own median among these the late Robert Higgs, Elliott O'Hara and Edgar Whitney former instructor at Pratt Institute, New York.
A prolific artist painting well over 200 paintings last year. He has been the recipient of many awards and is represented in many private collections and galleries throughout the U.S., he is represented in many of the area shows and was selected among those to be included in the IBM Traveling Collection.
Mr. Clow is a member of the Greater Kansas City Art Association, the Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri and the Rockport Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts.
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"I hope the viewer will discover within my paintings something of his inner self. I hope he sees an old friend, or says to himself,
yes I've been here before."
I have always felt that my paintings are for just one person at a time They’re from me to you. My intentions is to translate a thought, the title, into a coherent physical object, the painting is transformed into an original feeling. A realistic image receives design changes revisions, envisions and through a slow transformation becomes its own entity. Sometimes these paintings sat for years and then with a single mark it is born.
The painting then is finished
when the subject comes back with emotion,
strength and spontaneity.
