DUNCAN MARTIN

Duncan Martin, who in 2011 embarked on a project to paint 59 national parks in 59 months, is among the boldest colorists working today to interpret America's great natural wonders. He finished the project in February 2016 when he painted in Glacier National Park. But the project continues as Martin develops a body of work from his experiences painting the parks. Martin lives and works in Elsah, Illinois, and Saguache, Colorado, now retired from teaching to focus on painting the Southwest, Colorado, and the far reaches of America from Maine to California and Alaska. Martin is as comfortable with a palette knife as he is with a brush. In either case, he paints with such authority and confidence that whatever brushed chaos is apparent in specific passages, the collective effect is one of an intuitive process that seeks to express qualities of flow, light, and movement.