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Victor’s works resonate with so many people because they depict moods and messages that speak to the heart.
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Biography - Victor Kirton
Though Victor Kirton's majestic landscapes possess a captivatingly familiar quality, surprisingly these landscapes are not designed based on actual scenes in nature. In fact, Victor does not paint using reference materials. Instead, each work is created from the heart and mind of the artist. Gaining inspiration for each painting is a spiritual process for him. He follows his feelings, allowing each landscape to emerge and express its unique message of light and hope.
For many years Victor has struggled with clinical depression. Although his depression has been a tremendous burden in his life, it has also in specific ways contributed to the beauty of his art. The support he has received through his dark struggles has increased his appreciation for the power of light. He has found meaning in things that are often taken for granted.
Victor paints in a peaceful studio in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. He was born and raised near these majestic mountains and they continue to inspire him. His quiet studio is a sanctuary to him, allowing him to escape the darkness of depression and come to a place filled with the privacy and serenity he needs to seek inspiration for his beautiful landscape paintings.
As he began painting in his early teens, Victor found his path in life. Inspired by Robert Bateman's glorious depictions of nature, initially Victor sought to depict nature exactly as he saw it. His style changed as he experienced the works of the artists of the Hudson River School, who remain his primary influence today. Like them, he uses nature as a template to depict the deeper truths of life and to draw hearts and minds to the divine. He studies other artists as well, and attributes his use of illumination to Claude Lorrain and Maxfield Parrish and his use of color contrast to JMW Turner. He also admires several contemporary painters such as Dale Terbush and James Coleman, among others. Victor's style has been influenced by more recently a study of eastern thinking, specifically Bonsai and Feng Shui. This has allowed him the ability to not only convey strong emotion in the sky but also in the landscape itself. Standing on the shoulders of artistic giants, Victor pushes the limits ever upward in his dedication to creating landscapes that inspire -- landscapes of the heart, and of the imagination. Victor's work is included in private and corporate collections across the country.
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