Wednesday, October 19, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Artist’s show reiounts National Park adventure
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Dan Rickards has been
capturing the beauty and maj-
esty of America’s National
Parks in a series of oil paint-
ings for several years now.
Just last month, his affinity
for these gems of the natu-
ral world landed him a two-
week residency at Crater
Lake National Park, where he
sketched, journaled, painted
— and taught others to slow
down and truly experience
the wonders of Oregon’s only
national park.
The results of that
endeavor will be on display
in the artist’s retrospective
show at Clearwater Gallery
on Monday, October 24, from
4 to 6 p.m. The event will
also mark the unveiling of
the painting “Sentinels of the
Great Basin.” A special selec-
tion of wine will also be on
offer.
As artist-in-residence at
Crater Lake, Rickards made
it his mission to get people
out of their screens and into
the deeper flow of nature. He
noted that people more and
more tend to treat excursions
into the wild as opportunities
for selfies and other smart-
phone photos that they then
rush to post on Facebook or
Instagram.
He saw his mission as
helping people truly connect,
“to take more time at the park
… so you’re remembering
what it felt like to be there,
not just what it looked like…
If you only believe the photos
on your phone, there’s some-
thing you’re going to miss.”
Rickards encouraged oth-
ers to sit and sketch and to
write and sketch in journals
— and he did the same. He
did studies and sketches, and
experimented with color. All
of that will be on display in
the October 24 show.
“There’ll be plus [or]
minus 10 pieces that will rep-
resent my stay there,” he said.
The pieces will be avail-
able for purchase.
Four people who stayed at
the park with Rickards will
also have pieces in the show.
The unveiling will be of
a major piece in Rickards’
series of national park paint-
ings, this one featuring Great
Basin National Park — which
is especially noted for clear,
dark skies.
“I actually painted it as a
night scene with the Milky
Way galaxy,” he told The
Nugget.
The artist illuminated the
painting with black-light paint.
“For me, that’s a pretty big
stretch,” he said. “We’ll see
how that goes.”
PHOTO PROVIDED
Crater Lake study.
Clearwater Gallery is
located at 303 W. Hood Ave.
For more information, call
541-549-4994 or visit www.
danrickards.com.
PHOTO P[ROVIDED
Dan and Julia Rickards at Crater Lake National Park.
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