John O'Keefe Location: Wallingford, CT. Contact: 1+ 203-269-9409 Website(s): www.johnokeefe.net www.okeefe-arts.com |
Member: John O'Keefe I was born and raised in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA and this is where my wife and I continue to live and are now raising our own family. I specialize in landscape oil painting in a style similar to the famous Hudson River School and Victorian era artists. I sell my original works and a variety of high quality pigment print, i.e. Giclee, reproductions. Like every other artist I have loved viewing and creating art since as far back as I can remember. Growing up I was always drawing with pencils, colored pencils, watercolors, and I tried just about everything I could get my hands on. I received formal art training during my primary school years and I placed within the top 5 at a state level student art competition. I was invited to attend art classes one day a week at the University of Bridgeport Connecticut while a student in middle school. I have studied watercolor painting privately with Connecticut artist Cathy Singer and I received training at the Paier College of Art in New Haven Connecticut, all before graduating high school. More recently my wife, Jennifer has rekindled my zeal for drawing and painting. It was her encouragement and support that motivated me to take up oil painting as a full time artist in 2007 and now we are working together to promote my paintings. I love the early American painters from the Hudson River School and Victorian era. Most of my landscape oil paintings are directed toward the styles of those early artists. I hope to one day produce comparable works to such masters of landscape as Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and John Kennsett. My paintings have displayed at prestigious exhibitions at the "Lyme Art Gallery", "Mystic Arts Center", located in Connecticut, and "The Salmagundi Club" in New York, New York. My paintings have also exhibited in high end galleries such as the "Cate Charles Gallery" in Stonington, Connecticut in they have won awards. And the future only seems brighter as I work to promote my art. John O'Keefe |
Artwork 
"River Through the Adirondack's" 16x20, Oil on Canvas 
"Big Cork Tree" 8x10, Oil on Canvas 
"The Field's Edge" 12x16, Oil on Canvas 
"Summer in the Valley" 8x10, Oil on Canvas |
