Kim english

Kim English

Born in 1957, in Omaha, Nebraska. English was raised in a rural town near Colorado Springs, and completed his formal artistic training at the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver, Colorado in 1979. After graduation, he joined the faculty at the Art Students League of Denver and the Scottsdale Artists School.English depicts the profound moments of beauty often hidden within the particulars of daily life. A master of painterly chiaroscuro, his work remarks on the powerful harmony that exists…

Michael Malm: "The human figure, in my mind is the most beautiful of God’s creations". Well versed in a variety of painting styles, from still lifes

Kim English

This issue of Plein Air magazine brings you the bright palette and limited brushstrokes of Kim English, the story of how painting a lone tree for one year changed an artist, a plein air case study for studio painters, and much more!

Margo Balcerek is a painter passionately interested in garden, landscape and plants. Landscape architect by education, she finds a perfect outlet for her passions in painting. Margo possesses an unmistakable style of her own. Her works are a sublime mixture of reality and abstraction. Captivating control of light, stunning color schemes and composition are constant elements of her canvases. Her main media is oil on canvas, however sometimes she experiments with different media. Margo…

Mid-February in upstate New York is a good time to leave for a week in Arizona. So I did. Around Valentine's Day my friend Bruce and I flew to Scottsdale for a workshop with nationally known painter Kim English. It was my first workshop ever. L to R: artist Rose Nadeau, Kim English, artist Karen McLain, artist Rick Graham How and why this workshop was chosen is a long story I'll condense to a paragraph. Bruce's wife gifted him a workshop anywhere/anytime for his birthday. That was two years…