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Artist Exhibitions:
Artist Greg Fetler has
exhibited in fine art
galleries in Carmel, Pacific
Grove, and Palm Springs,
California. He currently
exhibits at his own Gallery,
Fetler Studios Fine Art
Gallery in Watsonville, Santa
Cruz County, on the Monterey
Bay of Northern California.
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Artist Galleries:
Fetler Studios Fine Art
Gallery
249 East Lake Avenue
Watsonville, CA 95076
(831)722-4365
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Collections:
Many of the artist's original
paintings are in Private
Collections. Please contact
the artist at
info@fetlerart.com for more
information....
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Commissions:
Greg Fetler first began
commissioning paintings when
he was in the Navy,
documenting Naval aviation and
squadron life. He has
commissioned many portrait
paintings, seascapes, and
landscapes, including a
painting of the historic Cliff
House Hotel in San Francisco,
California. "The Cliff
House", and other commissioned
artwork can be found ...
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Artist Statement for Greg Fetler
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I was the child of two artists. Mom was a painter, poetic and romantic, a restless colorist. Dad's canvasses represented the classical approach, lyrical, and completed with great technical skill. When I was ten, they let me use the oil paint box, and I've been painting ever since. Five formative teenage years in Europe exposed me to the history of art firsthand. Living in Norway awakened my deep feelings for the landscape. Seeing the magnificent cathedrals and museums of Europe convinced me of the amazing power of art. At Dartmouth College in beautiful New Hampshire, the great Richard Wagner convinced me to try acrylic paints, and I was immediately taken by their brilliance and flexibility. They were also very portable, and I carried them with me as I became a Naval Officer with my new bride. I flew throughout the Pacific, painting at every port of call. My acrylics documented Naval Aviation and squadron life, and were commissioned by aviators, including Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
In 1972 I left the Navy for graduate study in art, and to paint full time. I began to develop a variety of techniques, refusing to settle into one particular style. I studied the anthropology of art and began restoring damaged art from different cultures. I began selling several different styles of paintings, always at different venues: the detailed realistic California landscapes in the galleries of Carmel and Palm Springs, the large impressionistic acrylic watercolors at outdoor festivals. In 1985 I settled with my growing family to build my own studio and gallery in a historic Victorian in Watsonville, centrally located on the Monterey Bay coast in Northern California. The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 actually speeded this project along, and the post-quake demand for my art restoration skills fueled the construction of Fetler Studios Fine Art Gallery. I decided that my own gallery would be the best place to show the several different styles of paintings which I am compelled to develop:
The Magic Realism children series was inspired by the imaginary world created by my three year old son Joshua at play with his young friends. In their world, dragons make great pets and little elves build miniature cities, travel around the world in giant balloons, and sail the deep sea in great ships. I combine my love for detailed brushwork and realistic landscapes with the portraits of children engaged in this enchanting and magical play. The Giclee Print process has captured all of the fine detail and vivid color of this series of Paintings, and the resulting art prints stand on their own as Museum quality reproductions.
A second style I have developed to achieve my goal of detail in landscape art and seascapes is to use acrylics to apply classic watercolor techniques on canvas. These 'Acrylic Watercolors' naturally tend toward more atmospheric subjects such as skyscapes and water scenes and often use more emotional color. The result is a series of fine art Giclee Prints that combine realism with an impressionist art style.
My drive for constant technical experimentation has yielded the Sculpted Relief Art style. Using a flexible acrylic medium, I will sculpt the textures onto the canvas, creating a striking 3-D effect. An exciting painting process follows, where moods and details are defined by the sculpture underneath. The Giclee Print process has captured the sculpted technique of the Seascapes and Landscapes beautifully.
For years I have used experiments in 'Abstract Expressionism' as a release from my dependency on structure. I can stretch techniques without relying on an objective scene. Here, I can break and remake the rules of painting and use color to explore beautiful, random patterns. Unearthly objects emerge where the colorful brush strokes take on a life of their own. The Abstract Expressionist art prints are vibrantly captured using the Giclee printing process, and the resulting art print contains even the most subtle details of the Original Painting.
Ordering information for all of my artwork can be found at Fetler Studios Fine Art Gallery Online: http://www.fetlerart.com/, which is listed in the Art links section.
Information about the Giclee Printmaking Process and the stunning transfer it creates of my acrylic paintings:
The "Giclee" (pronounced 'zhee-clay', a French term meaning 'spray of ink') printmaking method was originally developed in 1989 with the introduction of the Iris digital printer. In this process, a fine stream of ink, more than four million droplets per second, is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. Each piece of paper or canvas is hand mounted onto a drum which rotates during printing. The effect is similar to an airbrush technique, but the Giclee droplets are over 35 times finer. The process of printing the Giclee can be a long one, and can take several hours to an entire day to produce one Print. Because no screens are used, the Giclee Prints have a higher resolution than lithographs, resulting in stronger contrast and richer color saturation. Testing of the inks, in combination with the fine art mediums used, has shown that the Giclee Prints last longer than those produced from traditional offset lithography.
Although there are many new printers entering the Giclee market, I have chosen the original Iris 3047G printer for my Giclee Prints on Arches Watercolor Paper and Giclee Prints on Canvas as the Iris Printer produces an Art Print that rivals the Original Painting in its quality. Each of the Giclee Prints in the Limited Edition series is hand signed and numbered, and each will come with a Certificate of Authenticity outlining the details of the reproduction.
Limited Edition Giclee Prints have been shown in exhibitions and purchased for permanent collections in museums and galleries throughout the world, including The Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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