Artist Darnéy - BIO
I began a serious interest in painting in the summer of 1967. Over the next 13 years when I painted my approach mostly involved left brain control, descriptive, short brushstroke representational painting. At the beginning of 1980 or '81, I took a 180 degree paradigm shift and began to paint spontaneous, wet-on-wet acrylic, very large canvas paintings directly outdoors from maple tree subjects. It was very right brained and had very little predetermined control, or pre-drawing. It was absolutely liberating. These painting images were very natural in exterior contours, but otherwise were very expressive in invented bold personal emotional color and interior content. The viewpoint also caused the painting to appear more abstracted. It was a macro view instead of the typical middle distance landscape view. Philosophically I found I was not only celebrating the maple trees but life itself.
At the time I began working in this manner I didn’t have any known historical influences. I simply wanted to paint spontaneous wet on wet bold color watercolors of nature subjects that were significant to me. The desire was to paint very large (around 6 by 8 feet canvases) and I couldn’t find any watercolor paper this large so I developed a way to paint in a wet-on-wet water color approach on canvas. After I worked like this for a while and became sensitive to this kind of painting I became aware of some historical work. The color field painters during the mid 20th century were painting large canvases with stained color areas. Painters Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler were working in similar ways. I also liked Emil Nolde’s bold color watercolors. However this work has been my own revelation and I am continuing to develop it, primarily with the iris flower as a stimulating subject
EDUCATION
MASTER OF FINE ARTS, Painting, Univ. of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ar.1983
MASTER OF ARTS, Digital Media, Univ. of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1998
BACHELOR of SCIENCE. Secondary Ed., John Brown Univ. Siloam Springs. Ar. May 1971
ART TEACHING EXPERIENCE
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Rogers, Arkansas - Fall 1990 - January 2021
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY, Siloam Springs, Arkansas
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 1981-1982
WORKSHOPS /PRIVATE LESSONS: painting, figure drawing, visual art fundamentals, portraiture.1975- present
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
END-TIME HANDMAIDENS INC./GLOBAL OUTPOURING, Jasper, Arkansas
NOTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Bentonville, Arkansas
THE ROCK of GREATER TULSA - Five Fold Ministry Ecclesia - Owasso, Ok
THE ROCK of NW ARKANSAS - Five Fold Ministry Ecclesia - Springdale, Ar
WASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - Fayetteville, Ar
MARCIA WHEELER DENTIST - Siloam Springs, Arkansas
ROGER'S CLINIC FOR WOMEN, P.A. - Rogers, Arkansas
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK - Little Rock, Ar
GEORGE'S, INCORPORATED - Springdale, Arkansas
VECTOR PROPERTIES - Tulsa, Oklahoma
BOAR'S HEAD GLASS COMPANY, INC - Van Buren, Ar
SAGER CREEK ARTS CENTER - Siloam Springs, Arkansas
OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS - Siloam Springs, Arkansas
STICHTING L'ABRI FELLOWSHIP - Ech en Weil, Holland
SOLO GALLERY SHOWS
ROCKHILL STUDIO, Fayetteville, Arkansas
EXPRESSIONS ART GALLERY, Bentonville, Arkansas
FUSION ART GALLERY - Bentonville, Arkansas
WALTON ARTS CENTER - Fayetteville, Arkansas
ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS - Springdale, Arkansas
KARMICHAELS RESTAURANT - Tulsa, Oklahoma
TULSA CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - Tulsa, Ok
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY - Siloam Springs, Arkansas
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF - Pine Bluff, Ar
FIRST NATIONAL BANK - Fort Smith, Arkansas
VISUAL ENTERPRISE GALLERY - Van Buren, Arkansas
ARTS CENTER OF THE OZARKS - Springdale, Arkansas
SAGER CREEK ARTS CENTER - Siloam Springs, Arkansas
INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOWS
TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY ART @ TOURMALINE URBAN, Bentonville, Arkansas
ERDOS AT HOME, Rogers, Arkansas
SHOWCASE ARKANSAS ART AUCTION, Little Rock, Arkansas
SYMPHONY DESIGNER HOUSE ART GALLERY, Little Rock, Arkansas
PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES
PERSONAL WEBSITE
www.wellspring-contemporary-art.com
ART CONSULTANT AFFILIATION
Allan Paulose - NW Arkansas USA
ArtLink - Israel/England
Nine dot Arts- Colorado USA
SCW Art Consulting - Colorado USA
8180 Art - Texas USA
Skyline Art Services - Texas USA
PUBLIC ART ARCHIVE
https://locate.publicartarchive.org/art/healingirises
ONLINE GALLERIES
www.bgallery.co.uk - England
www.artistsinfo.co.uk - England
dotfolioart - Colorado USA
PUBLICATIONS
art&beyond, vol. 7, winter ed. 2015
art&beyond, vol. 8, SUMMER ed. 2016
Art in Healthcare For Artists – An E-Guide by Renee Phillips www.renee-phillips.com October 2016
art&beyond Living Artists 0f Today: Contemporary Art Vol. III printed book 2017
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
art&beyond Living Artists 0f Today: Contemporary Art Vol. III Special Online Magazine 2016
Biafarin Awards - 2021 Group Exhibition Nov. 15 -2021 To Dec15-2021