Jerry Boorda Western Landscape Painter

<body background="images_site/Ritbkgrd.gif"> <table width="706" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr height="60"> <td valign="top" width="144" height="60"><br /> <br /> <br /> I<font color="#ebe778">f you are reading this page, your browser is not reading the frames design of this site. <br /> <br /> Most recent browser versions read frames. To see this sight properly, google search for a frame reading browser appropriate to your computer platform.</font></td> <td width="18" height="60"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td width="540" height="60"> <div align="left"> <br /> <br /> <br /> <font color="#000045">Jerry Boorda, Artist<br />Realist Fine Art Painter of American Western Landscapes<br /> <br /> Jerry Boorda is a realist fine art painter of American Western landscapes, producing oil paintings, dry brush watercolor paintings, and soft pastels. His art employs traditional realist painter methods such as dynamic composition, aerial perspective and chiaroscuro in an effort to produce illusions of light and depth not unlike the French trompe l'oeil.<br /> <br /> Exploring under-appreciated aspects of American Western landscape fine art painting, Boorda is apt to choose scenes that vary widely from trees and waterscapes robustly colored by a low sun, to monochromatic scenes of desert mountains and sparse treescapes disciplined by the harsher side of nature, to farm scenes assembled with a nearly oriental quietude.<br /> <br /> </font><span class="class14reg"> </span><font color="#000045"><span class="class14reg">"What I endeavor to put into my art is the strangeness and wonder of being alive in the presence of the natural world. This means painting land and water in their many variations, and the light that washes over them, defining all forms and distance. When I finish a painting, I want to feel that I am there at that particular moment, so that you the viewer may stand before the art, breathing in that moment once again.<br /> <br /> "Many people ask why I still produce painting in dry brush watercolor and soft pastel as well as oil, when the American art market clamors almost exclusively for oil painting. As history would have it, works on paper have been the desiderata of the artist's soul long before the advent of canvas. Many an artist feels this age old tug, finding joy and respite in the immediacy and responsiveness of these mediums. While my main commitment is to oil, I like having these other arrows in my quiver."<br /> <br /> — Jerry Boorda</span><br /> </font><br /> <span class="class14reg"><br /> <img src="images_oil_sm/oil_old_soldiers_sm.jpg" alt="" height="213" width="160" border="0" /><br /> <br /> </span><font color="#000044"><span class="class14reg"> All works protected by copyright.<br /> <br /> The site was designed by the artist on an imac using Go-Live CS2.<br /> First Edition, October 2007.<br /> <br /> For more information send e-mail to:<br /> </span></font><a href="mailto:boorda@jerryboorda.com"><font color="#ebe778">boorda@jerryboorda.com</font></a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p></p>  <script type='text/javascript' src='https://count.carrierzone.com/app/count_server/count.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> </script>  </body>