Steve Emery is a 57 year old Marin native who draws his inspiration from the trails of Marin and the High Sierra.

I have been drawing and painting professionally for 32 years and show my work in community art festivals, group shows and open studios as a way of meeting those who appreciate the work.

Currently, I carry a camera when I go running, or exploring, and come back to my studio to produce paintings from these photos. While out on the trails, I seek the season changing events, the spectacular, the ethereal, the curve of trail, or shoreline, the sensuous. These pieces at Acacia Gallery are from my body of work which I refer to as "intimate portraits of landscape".

The prints that Acacia carries were reproduced from acrylic paintings on watercolor paper. They were slightly enlarged, to show the texture of my techniques, and to differentiate them from the originals.

Below is a description of my technique.

I work with acrylic paint on heavy, hot-pressed watercolor paper. The pieces progress by way of many transparent layers of color. The lighter, brighter parts have fewer layers, allowing the white of the paper to provide the brightness. The darker shadows and brighter colors have more layers.

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