A Visual Journey
In "real life" Bart has been a nonprofit CEO, a business consultant, and a practicing Family Therapist with work experience in many fields.
His original training as an anthropologist introduced him to a wide range of human artistic expression from art to architecture, from the Paleolithic era to the modern, spanning diverse cultures across the inhabited continents.
Sketching since childhood, Bart is self-trained in several graphic media, including photography, videography, digital graphics, and more. His background in psychology includes training in visual perception.
Because growing up in a family with artists and master craftsmen was a bit intimidating, Bart did not begin to paint seriously until his 30s, having pursued photography as his main art form instead. But once he found his way with the brush, he never looked back.
Sumi-e painting was his first foray, then he took up acrylics for many years. He works in several dry and water-based media: acrylics, watercolor, gouache, Ceracolors (water based cold wax), pastel, pencil and pen, sometimes mixing them.
Stylistically his inspirations are the Impressionists/Post-Expressionists, graphic illustration, ancient and modern woodblock prints. His style is modeled on those forms of expressive realism, not photo-realism nor abstraction. Painting colleagues have named it "Chaotic Realism!" Subjects range from portraiture and still life to landscapes, with a decided preference for the latter. Bart paints both from imagination and real life and challenges you to tell the difference.
Organizing Burlingame Plein Air Painters gets him out to paint more often in beautiful surroundings with great company.
His original training as an anthropologist introduced him to a wide range of human artistic expression from art to architecture, from the Paleolithic era to the modern, spanning diverse cultures across the inhabited continents.
Sketching since childhood, Bart is self-trained in several graphic media, including photography, videography, digital graphics, and more. His background in psychology includes training in visual perception.
Because growing up in a family with artists and master craftsmen was a bit intimidating, Bart did not begin to paint seriously until his 30s, having pursued photography as his main art form instead. But once he found his way with the brush, he never looked back.
Sumi-e painting was his first foray, then he took up acrylics for many years. He works in several dry and water-based media: acrylics, watercolor, gouache, Ceracolors (water based cold wax), pastel, pencil and pen, sometimes mixing them.
Stylistically his inspirations are the Impressionists/Post-Expressionists, graphic illustration, ancient and modern woodblock prints. His style is modeled on those forms of expressive realism, not photo-realism nor abstraction. Painting colleagues have named it "Chaotic Realism!" Subjects range from portraiture and still life to landscapes, with a decided preference for the latter. Bart paints both from imagination and real life and challenges you to tell the difference.
Organizing Burlingame Plein Air Painters gets him out to paint more often in beautiful surroundings with great company.
I labour by singing light not for ambition or bread "
Dylan Thomas - In My Craft & Sullen Art
Exhibitions
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Coastal Arts League Plein Air Show 2025
300 Main Street Half Moon Bay, CA July - September 2025 |
"Pebble Beach", Acrylic on panel, 22x18" framed, Pescadero, CA
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Coastal Arts League Member Show 2025
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"Gray Whale Cove", pastel on Siena PastelMat, 24x18" framed, Montara, CA
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Coastal Arts League "In the Garden" Show 2025
Coastal Arts League Gallery (juried show) 300 Main Street Half Moon Bay, CA March 2025 Honorable Mention
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"Plumbago Explosion", 15x18" framed, soft pastel on Dark Blue PastelMat, Woodside CA
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Coastal Arts League Member Show 2024
Coastal Arts League Gallery (group show) 300 Main Street Half Moon Bay, CA Fall 2024 |
"Treeptych Jaune", 15x18" framed, soft pastel on PastelMat, Portola Valley CA
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Coastal Arts League Plein Air Show 2024
Coastal Arts League Gallery (juried show) 300 Main Street Half Moon bay, CA 7/4/24 - 7/25/24 |
"Montara Beach in Red", soft pastel on Mi Teintes Blue paper, 18x15" framed
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Canopy: The Sheltering Trees
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Featured painting, center panel of "Treeptych"
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Members Annual Show
Coastal Art League Gallery (juried group show) Main Street, Half Moon Bay, CA 11/30/23 - 1/27/24 |
"Winter Morning Mist on the Reservoir" Hillsborough, CA 20x16" pastel on white PastelMat
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Seasons of Light
Coastal Art League Plein Air (juried group show) Coastal Art League Gallery Main Street, Half Moon Bay, CA 7/27 - 8/28/23 |
"Farm in Spring Light", Half Moon Bay, CA. 20x10" pastel on PastelMat
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Wild Light
Burlingame Plein Air Painters (group show) State Street Market, Los Altos, CA 9/14 - 10/16/22 |
"Winter Morning Mist on the Reservoir" 20x16" pastel on PastelMat
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Along the Ohlone Portola Trail
Featured Painting (juried exhibition) Sanchez Art Center Pacifica, CA 7/12 - 8/11/2019 |
"San Pedro Creek as Portola Would Have Found It" 9x12" acrylic on panel
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Burlingame Plein Air Painters, Open Air
Burlingame Plein Air Painters (group show) Sanchez Art Center 7/14 - 8/13/2017 |
"Pebble Beach" 12x9" acrylic on panel
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