Dave Dodge
Paintings
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York Harbor, Spring, 14x18, oil/linen, painted on location
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Marcia Elaine, York Harbor Marina, 11x14, oil/linen, painted on location
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Monadnock, Low Ceiling, 18x24, oil/linen, painted on location
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Vermont Farm, 12x16, oil/linen, painted on location
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Port Clyde, Inner Harbor, 12x16, oil/linen, painted on location
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York Harbor, Judy Marie, 16x20, oil/linen, painted on location
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CONTACT INFO
Studio Hours:
by appointment
Artist Statement / Biography
Artist Statement
As a student of the traditional approach to landscape painting, I believe nature to be the greatest teacher. Only by being there can one learn to see the subtleties which are the defining aspects captured by those who have created the richest landscape art throughout history. When outside, an exhilarating energy comes with the changing light and weather, and the challenge to capture what I feel to be the essence of a place at a particular moment in time.
Biography
Dave Dodge paints landscapes, primarily en plein air, and is a continual student of nature and traditional landscape art. His love of the outdoors and the landscape began in the Connecticut River valley of western New Hampshire where the farmland looks to Mount Ascutney. Art began to be a focus for him at Kimball Union Academy which provided a foundation for Syracuse University where he majored in illustration and studied advertising design. Graduating with a BFA, he moved to Westport Connecticut and began work as a designer in the metropolitan New York area. He came 'home' to New Hampshire in the mid-eighties and continued to work as a designer. When a friend, the painter John Sirois, introduced him to outdoor painting he became instantly hooked.
He and his wife Kathryn reside on East Mountain in Peterborough and on the Nubble in York Maine.