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“Woods
after a Snowy Evening” © Robert H. Lafond
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Name:
Robert H. Lafond
Bio: Robert H. Lafond, attended
the Boston Museum School from 1967-69, has an degree in Art History from
Princeton University (1971), where he studied painting under Esteban Vicente, and
worked in an art museum for almost twenty years. Robert got his Masters in
Communication and Information Studies from Rutgers University in 1995 and is
currently Vice President for Information Technology at Holy Family University,
Philadelphia.
He has been exhibiting his paintings
since 1971; and his pastels especially since 2009, around New Jersey, Vermont
and Maine.
Medium: Pastel.
Subjects:
Landscape; Still Life. “I prefer to work outdoors, but also do landscapes from
my photographs, when it’s raining or cold. An occasional still life comes
from whatever I find in the refrigerator. A lot of my recent work focuses
upon the landscape of Washington Crossing Park, the Delaware & Raritan Canal,
and the Delaware River. I also do a lot of New England landscapes.”
Style: Representational.
Technique: Robert says: “Four
years ago, I started drawing every day, after a hiatus of several years from
making art. I gradually migrated through the media of pencil, charcoal,
pen and ink, colored pencils, to pastels. I now work every day with
pastels. I like the immediacy of pastels. I need to respond to the
world around me, especially the landscape. Pastels are like extensions of
my fingers that give off color, the ultimate alla prima medium. I try to approach creating art from a
spiritual perspective, as a thanksgiving, a present moment, a prayer.”
Navigation: All links remain
accessible at top of page.
Gallery: Landscapes; Still
Life; Portraits (six self-portraits).
Image
View: Thumbnails open in a viewer on the
new page that features the small thumbnails across the top and can be viewed
serially. Dimensions are listed. Download is possible, even encouraged, by a
download button. Woods after a Snowy
Evening is 8 x 10 ins, is 640 x 518, 104
KB. (I couldn’t resist this painting and couldn’t help thinking of Robert
Frost.)
Blog:
The link from the website is indirect. Go to http://markandremark.blogspot.com/
Bob's work is very sophisticated, and I really enjoyed the website and images.
ReplyDeleteThank you Casey. I love to discover artists new to me, and I keep looking, even if I seem to take one step forward and two back as I add more than I get around to reviewing!
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