Robert Daughters
Painter
Limited Edition Serigraphs
For over thirty years, Robert Daughters has celebrated the landscapes and cultures of the Southwest in his colorful paintings. His studio looks out onto the foothills of the Catalinas near Tucson, Arizona, where he has developed his distinctive style: bold brush strokes, and combined light and dark colors in compositions painstakingly designed and executed. Daughters calls the practice of alternating light and dark colors cloisonne for its resemblance to the ancient Asian enamel technique. Dark lines are used to separate colors, defining landscape form with sharp contrast.
Rather than describe himself as an impressionist or expressionist, Daughters says he is a "composist," his term for an artist who creates paintings with color and harmony, the contrast of light and dark value and above all, structure. His work is created from photographs, charcoal sketches, and small plein air oil studies. The emphasis on structure, an orderly arrangement of shapes, tones, and atmospheric effect. "The composition always comes first," Daughters says, "I like to have an important visual point; sometimes it's a structure, and sometimes it might be a color."
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Aspen Grove
Limited Edition Serigraph
$500 loose print
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