14”x18”, Oil on Canvas,
Archived on the moon via Luna Codex Nova aboard Odysseus
Cover of Plein Air Magazine June/July 2023
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Honorable Mention & Plein Air Magazine Award
16th ARC International Salon Finalist 2022
Featured in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine Nov/Dec 2021
Second Place in Richeson’s
“International Landscape, Seascape, & Architecture Art Competition”
Juried into Oil Painters of America 2021
“30th National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils”
Juried into White Bear Center for the Arts 2020
“International Plein Air Competition: Truth in Nature”
10”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1,200
American Impressionist Society 5th Annual
“Impressions: Small Works Showcase” Juried Exhibition
April 1-April 30, 2021
Reinert Fine Art Charleston, South Carolina
In late summer, I was painting along Seven Bridges Road ...or under it rather. It is not my normal scene, but looking at what we may have overlooked is important to our growth as artists...really for all of us in every field... in our lives. I took it as far as I could before the light gave out, and finished it back in the studio from memory.
18”x24”, Oil on Linen
Awarded 1st Place
In Person & Online Aug 1-14
12”x16”, Oil on Linen $1,400
Juried into the White Bear Center for the Arts,
2021 Into Nature: International Online Plein Air Show
14”x18”, Oil on Canvas, $1,600
“Summer Invitational” @ Groveland Gallery July 25 - Sept 5
This subtle sunset was my reward after a long day of painting. I pulled over, leaned on the car, took a picture, and soaked it in. A few days later, I came across the curious arrangement of round bales on a scrappy spring field above a bend on the Rush River, but the light was flat, and I wasn’t able to make much of it. Both scenes would come to mind frequently, dogging me for having left them unpainted. I drew on my experience and imagination, as they came together in the studio.
16”x20”, Oil on Linen, $2,200
Red Wing Plein Air, 2020
Second Place
This one took three mornings. The sun rises so fast because it was hardly down. So the long shadows retreat back to their sources quickly. As the light changes, it leaves me to paint more from memory and imagination. It is like putting away the recipe when your cooking and seasoning to taste.
As the cows walked through the pasture I couldn’t help but think the James Taylor lyric "Deep Greens and Blues are the colors I choose..." from “Sweet Baby James.”
14”x18”, Oil on Linen, $1,600
Red Wing Plein Air, 2020
Painted over the course of a couple of evenings along the Mississippi River looking back at the city of Red Wing and Barn Bluff.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
24”x30”, Oil on Linen, $3,800
“Autumn Arrives” was created as part of an international Plein air event organized by Oil Painters of America, with artists from all over the world painting on September 11 and 12.
I spent the two days working on the rugged shore of the St. Louis River as it flows through Jay Cooke State Park. This is a quiet bend amidst miles of rapids. There was a touch of fall in the air and on the leaves. The September sun came and went with the passing clouds.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
Autumn Invitational Plein Air Festival
Nov 27- Jan 16
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
“Summer Invitational” @ Groveland Gallery July 25 - Sept 5
I chose to pursue this scene after struggling with my first attempt to paint “Stonehammer.” Each time I backed up from that painting. That thin blue line of the rapids wouldn’t leave me alone. After I wiped the struggling painting, I picked up all my gear to face the opposite direction, and answer the invitation. I established that blue line of the rapids with the second or third brush stroke. The rest of the painting grew out of that coming together of river, bank, and willow.
20”x24”, Oil on Linen
24”x30”, Oil on Linen, $3,800
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $700
A studio piece about shape, value, and harmonizing reds, blues, yellows, and greens.
16"x12", Oil on Linen, $1,100
9”x12”, Oil on Linen
9”x12”, Oil on Linen
16"x20", Oil on Linen, $2,200
Available @ James Krom Natural Images
20"x24", Oil on Linen
Private Collection
20"x16", Oil on Linen, $2,200
16"x20", Oil on Linen, $2,200
8"x10", Oil on Linen
8"x10", Oil on Linen
8"x10", Oil on Linen
8"x10", Oil on Linen, Private Collection
11"x14", Oil on Linen $900
11'x14", Oil on Linen, Private Collecion
20”x24”, Oil on Linen
9”x15”, oil on linen
6”x8”, Oil on Canvas
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $700
24"X30", Oil on Linen, $3,800
18"x24", Oil on Linen
24'x36", Oil on Linen
9”x12”, Oil on Linen
11"x14", Oil on Linen, $900
12"x16", Oil on Linen, $1,100
6"x8", Oil on Linen, $400
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $700
24”x30”, Oil on Linen
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
12"x16", Oil on Linen, $1,100
12”x18”, Oil on Linen Donated to Kiap-TU-Wish for fundraiser
24"x30", Oil on Linen, $3800
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
10”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
12"x20", Oil on Linen, $1,600
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
9"x15", Oil on Linen, $950
9"x12" Oil on Linen, $800
8”x10”, Oil on Linen SOLD
16"x20", Oil on Linen, $2,200
30"x40", Oil on Canvas,
6"x8", Oil on Linen, $400
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $700
24”x36”, Oil on Linen
Painted over the course of three days on location in early March.
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $800
Door County Plein Air Festival, 2020
Curbside Small Works Sale July 25 & 26
“North of Ellsworth” was painted on location on one of the last warm days of fall. The once regal white barn had seen better days, but even its current state, it had been left for us to admire and remember that things beautifully made, never lose their utility because few things are profoundly useful as beauty.
Peninsula School of Art
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9”X12”, Oil on Linen
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Some paintings are hours away, and others are up the street. This was painted several years ago, back when we used to walk my kids to school. We turned left at this house, but we rarely walked alone. There are a handful of families on our block with kids the same or similar ages, and we’d all walk together with tag along sibs and an occasional dog. The walk is a just a couple of blocks, maybe 10 minutes. We all would visit along the way, cultivating friendships just like our neighbor with her tulips 🌷🌷
11”x14”, Oil on Linen
“From the Top of Ryan Road” was painted outside of Madison, high above the Driftless area of South Western Wisconson. I was exploring a valley when I came upon Ryan Road. It shares its name with my youngest brother, so I followed the road. Up and up it went, offering this heavenly view of all that lays beyond the carpet of Queen Anne's Lace.
Door County Plein Air Festival, 2020
Bid now at the Online Auction July 27 - Aug 7
Peninsula School of Art
1 (920) 868-3455 info@peninsulaschoolofart.org
14”x18”, Oil on Linen. $1,600
It was a beautiful August afternoon at the historic Schech's Mill in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. This is the only watermill of the remaining three watermills in Minnesota to operate solely with water power and the only one to have its original millstones. It is amazing what you can happen upon while exploring.
20”x16”, Oil on Linen
I started this painting on location from Oberg Loop overlook. The wind was so strong, I had to hold the side of the canvas while I painted.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen $900
Outdoor Painters of Minnesota Fall Member Show
FrameWorks Gallery
2022A Ford Pkwy
St Paul, MN 55116
651-698-3372
Exhibit Dates: November 14, 2020 – January 2, 2021
10”x8”, Oil on Linen, $800
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“God and the Railroad” was painted on a sultry summer morning overlooking the rail yard behind the Jackson Street Roundhouse. I liked how this slice of the St. Paul alludes to some of its foundational stories.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $900
“Canadian Cloud Shadows” began as a Plein Air painting, on Rose Lake, who’s shores are on both sides of the US/Canada border. Between the Boundary Waters Lakes, are the portages, and these were magical: Around every bend seemed to be waterfalls, scenic overlooks, quiet bays, or rushing streams. Not knowing when I’d be back, it was hard to settle down and just paint one.
16”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $800
Despite my efforts to stay out of the wind, it wasn’t meant to be, so the chop of the water, is echoed in the brush work.
8"x10", Oil on Linen, $700
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, $700
8”x10”, oil on linen, $800
Painted on a quiet summer evening looking across Superior Bay into St Louis Bay through a gap between some homes along Minnesota Avenue in Duluth. I had driven by it on previous visits, and it felt great to finally answer the invitation of light, air, and industry .
24”x36”, Oil on Linen, $4,400
4.5”x8”, oil on linen, $300
6”x8”, oil on linen, $500
9”x12”, Oil on Linen,
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9”x12”, Oil on Linen,
Fast Field Study at the end of a full day of painting.
8”x10”, Oil on Linen,
16”x20”, Oil on Linen, $2,500
Purchase Online from Olson-Larson Galleries
Annual Landscape Show
Opening reception Friday, May 27th, 5-7pm.
I drove by this scene along Belle Creek, almost every night I drove back to St Paul from Red Wing. It is so rhythmic and harmonious, I couldn’t let it go. It was interesting to paint a scene that I had rehearsed in my mind.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
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Annual Landscape Show
Opening Friday, May 27th, 5-7pm.
16”x20”, Oil on Linen, $2,200
This was painted during a special day at the Walker Art Center’s Sculpture Garden, where I was one of a handful of artists invited to paint on location. It was one of the more unique experiences I have had painting on location. It was like painting on the set of Fellini movie. There were a dozen languages being spoken by all the unicyclists, wedding proposals, wedding pictures, children running, parents chasing, dogs barking, people reading, and the group that took the cake was a group of eastern European moms all breast feeding behind me. Each time I backed up from my painting, they laughed and giggled at my obvious embarrassment. Yet most of that was all going on mostly behind me. Everyone came in went like waves on the beach, while I painted.
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
9"x12", Oil on Linen, $800
9”x14”, Oil on Linen, SOLD
Door County Plein Air Festival
Peninsula School of Art
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920.868.3455
8”x10”, Oil on Linen, SOLD
Door County Plein Air Festival
Peninsula School of Art
info@PeninsulaSchoolofart.org
920.868.3455
SOLD 14”x18”, Oil on linen, $1,800
American Impressionists Society 23rd National Juried Show
8”x10” Oil on Linen, $900
Created in late autumn along a bend in Belle Creek, during Red Wing Arts’ Plein Air Autumn Invitational.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100, 2022
Plein Air and Studio
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100,
People’s Choice Award
Outdoor Painters of Minnesota 2022 Annual Member’s Show
24”x36”, Oil on Linen, $6,200, 2020
Read all about the painting on: OutdoorPainter.com
Second Place Plein Air 15th International ARC Salon Exhibition.
Best Plein Air by Plein Air Magazine 2020, June Salon
Oil Painters of America National Juried Show, Steamboat Art Museum
This large Plein Air painting was created over the course of 5 evenings. I was initially captivated by how the farm seemed to tumble down the hillside, but once I got my bearings, and realized how the setting sun would be lighting them up, everything was organized around my anticipation of the evening light.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
Twilight seemed to linger longer in the wide-sweeping valley. There was enough light to paint by. My sunburned cheeks felt warm in the soothing evening breeze. It seemed like ages since sunset had finished its showing off. A few deer bound almost invisibly through the marsh; only their white tails wave goodnight. The night came, the moon kept climbing, and the coyote calls drifted down through the valley.
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Juried into White Bear Center for the Arts 2020
“International Plein Air Competition: Truth in Nature”
12”x16”, Oil on Linen,
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Stonehammer I was captivated by the way the shadow of the cliff rolled across the bottom of the crystal clear river while connecting and contrasting the foreground and background of the scene. It took a couple of attempts and this one required a few visits.
9“x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
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"Slipping Away" is the first painting I created on location after a month of being home in the studio during the early stages of Minnesota's lockdown. It was good to be out on a chilly morning with the bright sun and a sharp breeze in one of my favorite valleys.”
16”x20”, Oil on Linen, $2,500
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This piece was juried into
American Impressionist Society’s Nation Juried Show, 2018
12”x16”, Oil on linen
9”x12”, oil on linen, $1,100
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"Winter’s End" was painted on location down in the dizzying maze of valleys and creeks of Southern Minnesota's Driftless Region. It is from the last day I was out prior to all of us staying in. After painting it and "Coyote Calls" Beauty is an invitation to seek what may seem beyond us, with the hope that we may recognize what has always been within us.
9”x12”, Oil on Linen, $1,100
Red Wing Plein Air, 2023
https://redwingarts.org/red-wing-arts-plein-air
651-388-7569
16”x12”, oil on linen
12”x9”, oil on linen, $1,100
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SECOND PLACE
Red Wing Plein Air, 2023
Judge comments, “This has a beautiful feel of the midday sun. The simplified handling of the trees brings your eye down to the sparkle of the light on the water. Joshua uses oil paint to its fullest with varied strokes and thicknesses.”
12”x16”, Oil on Linen, $1,400, 2022
24”x36”, Oil on Linen, $4,400
Finalist:
Selected for the 2023 Almenara Art Prize exhibition in Córdoba, Spain
Best in Show:
INTO NATURE: Plein Air Competition
18”x24”, Oil on Linen, $2,800, 2021
GROVELAND GALLERY
25 Groveland Terrace
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
612-377-7800
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9”x12”, Oil on Linen
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