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A native Montanan, James is primarily known for his landscape paintings of the Great Falls area as well as many beautiful places in and out of the state. His career as a professional painter began a relatively short time ago in 2002 when he returned to Montana with his family after living in Connecticut for almost six years. Thanks to God and a supportive art buyer's market in the area he continues to make a living from his artwork. His painting style tends to be more tonalist in nature with a soft, slightly out of focus look to it lacking the harder edge typical to many oil paintings. His subjects are usually not the majestic mountain peaks common to western art but more the vastness of the prairie, the vista or just the simple space between things. Its not so much what is painted but how it is painted. Does it make the viewer feel? Does it take them somewhere? Does it cause them to remember another place or another time? To him a successful painting communicates by answering one or more of these questions. Maybe its the color, the composition or maybe its the boldness of the brush stroke or the subtle lack of them that creates the connection between an artist's vision and the viewer's interpretation of it.
Bason attended and graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman with honors in the graphic design program. For 5 years he has shown his work at the Jay Contway Art Show while jurying into the C.M. Russell Art Auction for two of those years. He participated in the C.M. Russell Museum's Buffalo Hunt by painting a tabletop buffalo and also participates in the Masters in Miniature Invitational Exhibition and Sale. He is an annual participant in the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center's annual plein air event as well as the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art's annual benefit art auction. His work is shown locally through Gallery 16 and regionally in Red Lodge at the Depot Gallery and in Ennis at Otter Banks Gallery. Bason's work can be seen on his website www.jamesbason.com and http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/jimmyb |
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