Artist Duncan Martin aims to paint 58 National Parks in 58 months. Works completed include: "Late Summer Evening 1" (top) and "Late Summer Evening 2" on this page and "Blue Peak" on p. 18.
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PAINTER EXPLORES RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE By DANETTE M. WATT or Duncan Martin, painting landscapes has less to do with the physicality of the land and so much more to do with the spiritual connection he has with it. â&#x20AC;&#x153; I a m m o v e d t o pa i n t l a n d s c a p e s , places and spaces by the rhythm, movement and spirit in the relationships of forms, colors and light. These are present and unfold themselves as I paint and work on location, out in the land,â&#x20AC;? Duncan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They resonate within my being and represent a oneness rather than a separation or distance.â&#x20AC;? A quote by Alexander Pope sums it up for him: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is and God the soul.â&#x20AC;? Last year, Duncan began the 58 in 58 National Parks project as a way to celebrate those places where â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul shines through our beautiful body. The land I care about has
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FROM PAGE 16 become more and more important as development has encroached upon it and parks have lost funding. “I’m not alone in painting in the parks. It’s not necessarily a unique idea. But it’s the work itself and not the structure of the project that will make it different,” Duncan said. “I’m interested in the painting, the art itself, not necessarily a quintessential view of the park.” Duncan traces his beginnings as a landscape painter to the three years he spent painting in Calhoun County. The body of work he created resulted in his first major showing outside of school. More importantly, it was his experiences with the land and spending time in it during his formative years that has informed his art. “My work germinates from my experience in the landscape, being in it as it changes. I may stand (in one spot) and paint for three hours, but the landscape changes while I’m there. It’s multi-faceted and vibrates with life,” Duncan said. Born in upstate New York in 1954, Duncan majored in art at Principia College in 1976. He studied painting with Neil Welliver at the University of Pennsylvania and received an MFA in 1986. He taught at Principia for about 10 years, then “got the itch to move on.” He married and moved to Santa Fe, N.M. That, he says, was the start of his “Western sojourn” when he lived in, traveled around and painted the Southwest. Other locations that have been significant to his work are Glen Arbor, Mich., and Deer Isle, Maine. Duncan began his “58 in 58” project in February 2010 with Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Since then, he has been to the Arches and Canyonlands in Utah earlier this year and expects to paint in 10 more parks over the summer. Several works will be created on location at each park. In addition, he’ll make sketches and take videos and photographs to help him recreate the scene when he returns home. But he noted, “There is a certain amount of absorption while you are out there on site.” Back in the studio, Duncan will paint larger works. Duncan plans to blog about his project on his website, http://duncanmartin.squarespace.com.
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