Paintings by Robert Fellows
Robert Fellows paints impressionist landscapes in watercolor and oil. If you like his work, he will ask you to credit his mentors. When he was forty, he began traveling throughout northern New England, upstate New York, and eastern Canada with the renowned artist George Carpenter. The lessons were not formal, but he was able to learn the life of a professional artist from leaving the house at 5:00 a.m. to driving for hours to find the perfect subject, to making the painting, to framing it and selling it at a gallery in a tourist spot the same evening. Fellows still spends a lot of time hunting for subjects. Plein air painting is certainly an adventure!
Later, Fellows attended formal workshops, and was especially inspired by Australian oil painter Colley Whisson; Uruguayan watercolorist Alvaro Castagnet; and American artists Larry Moore, Bethanne Kinsella Cople, Eric Jacobsen, and Frank Webb.
Robert Fellows has earned his livelihood as a blues musician, yoga teacher, stage magician, public speaker, and church pastor. Like so many others who have pursued a number of careers, he finally felt drawn to fine art as a way to appreciate nature, drink it in, explore pure creativity, and share his discoveries with others.
Eco-Friendly
The painting “Winter Light” won the 18 and up category in the 2023 NH United Church of Christ Earth Day Art Contest. Whenever possible, Fellows uses environmentally friendly Gamblin Reclaimed Earth Colors in his oil paintings. The pigments are made from heavy metals leached into the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from abandoned coal mines. (See: Cleaning Up Rivers and Making Paint.) The process saves waste, cleans waterways for new life, restores the ecosystem, and puts authentic earth colors into his paintings. Fellows also tries to reuse frames. Most importantly, he hopes that his paintings encourage appreciation for nature, the environment, and God’s creation.
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