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Landscape Paintings by GEORGE COLL available at Columbine Gallery Colorado's Largest Fine Art Source Specialists in Public Art and Home Décor George Coll, painting, artwork, artist, Columbine Gallery, Art, Colorado, landscape, oil, plein air, llama Columbine Gallery artist George Coll, available artwork and about the artist. I am an avid painter of western landscapes and enjoy teaching art in studio for more than a decade. What was it about me that got the painting thing going? Artist George Coll, I paint a lot of landscapes because I live in beautiful northern Colorado. Rocky Mountain National Park is close by. I love to paint nature and to be out in it but I didn’t start there. I first started painting live portraits. My teacher stressed the importance of painting from life and she was so right. The same holds true for landscapes. The first time I went out to paint a landscape in plein-air, I struggled. It was so complicated, it was too hot, there were too many bugs and the light changed all the time. It was not at all like the controlled environment of a studio portrait but then the Coll perseverance thing kicked in. I painted outside for two years before I ever came back into the studio to paint a landscape. I can relate my struggle to my love of fly-fishing. I didn’t catch a fish for the first year but I came to love and respect those wily trout. After that long year, I figured out the tactics and started catching fish but by then didn’t have the heart to keep them and gave them their freedom back. I attract collectors by my direct, straight forward style of painting. When my brush or palette knife is empty I re-load rather than dab-dab-dab it into ‘mud’. I practice, put it down and leave it. Years ago I purchased two “trained” pack llamas. I was the one who had to be trained and I have come to love the “boys” (Cardamom and Night Train). At least once a year they carry my camping and painting gear to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. When I roll out the trailer they go into their happy dance to get loaded. I go into my happy dance too – ready to do what I dearly love. “I am an avid painter of western landscapes and enjoy teaching art in studio for more than a decade. What was it about me that got the painting thing going? I did not come from an artistic family, but I do come from a family of “doers”. I can get in front of a blank canvas and get things started either in the studio or plein air – no problem with painter’s block. My siblings inherited the same ‘get it done’ trait but do other things than paint. I live in Northern Colorado and develop my skills and style around the local environment. I paint a lot of landscapes because I live in beautiful northern Colorado. Rocky Mountain National Park is close by. I love to paint nature and to be out in it but I didn’t start there. I first started painting live portraits. My teacher stressed the importance of painting from life and she was so right. The same holds true for landscapes. The first time I went out to paint a landscape in plein-air, I struggled. It was so complicated, it was too hot, there were too many bugs and the light changed all the time. It was not at all like the controlled environment of a studio portrait but then the Coll perseverance thing kicked in. I painted outside for two years before I ever came back into the studio to paint a landscape. I can relate my struggle to my love of fly-fishing. I didn’t catch a fish for the first year but I came to love and respect those wily trout. After that long year, I figured out the tactics and started catching fish but by then didn’t have the heart to keep them and gave them their freedom back. I attract collectors by my direct, straight forward style of painting. When my brush or palette knife is empty I re-load rather than dab-dab-dab it into ‘mud’. I practice, put it down and leave it. Years ago I purchased two “trained” pack llamas. I was the one who had to be trained and I have come to love the “boys” (Cardamom and Night Train). At least once a year they carry my camping and painting gear to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. When I roll out the trailer they go into their happy dance to get loaded. I go into my happy dance too – ready to do what I dearly love.

George Coll

Cottonwood Love

$950.00

$950.00

$900.00

$900.00

Evening Aspen Grove

$450.00

$450.00

Last Light, Sedona

$950.00

$950.00

Log Jam at Glacier Creek

$900.00

$900.00

$900.00

$900.00

$475.00

$475.00

Sunlit Afternoon

$450.00

$450.00

Western Slope Ranch

$850.00

$850.00

The Willow Trail

$1,950.00

$1,950.00