American artist and poet, Bob Domin, shows his latest efforts from his “New Vistas” tour, a decade long tour of ten inspiring locations, one year each.  It began in  Stauton, Virgina in the Shenandoah Valley, Portland, Maine, Boone, North Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains, and most recently,the high plains of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

The artist has been painting coastal Oregon since the spring of 2011, and has captured the painted ladies, Victorian houses in Astoria, as well as, iconic churches.  With each new vista stop,  Domin begins an in-depth study of the area’s history, then creates the spirit of each locale in original fine art paintings.
 
He has won numerous awards through local and state juried art shows, and is a honors graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. Bill Hartman, of the Hartman Fine Art Gallery in Sarasota: ” I’m impressed how Domin has done it all. he’s like a phoenix.  He rose up and found a way to make something great come from his plans.”
 

Art Levy, of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, with a byline  from The New York Times wrote: “Painting was his life jacket, keeping him alive until his grandiose thinking was in order, in an article titled: “Crazy Bob bounces back”. It is estimated that there are 2000 paintings placed in corporate, public or private collections.
 
The artist has a favorite quote by Louis Pasteur:  “The secret to my success lies solely in my tenacity.”.
 
His artwork has sold for thousands of dollars or been traded for life’s essentials.  The showing at Fairweather”s, will be a solo show with a silent auction, that will be a benefit for the Clatsop County Humane Society. Domin will be working on colored drawings, used as painting preliminaries.
Denise Fairweather states: ” through Domin’s paint brush, contrasts of color are expressed through an artist’s eye and hand, stroke by stroke, showing the assembly of perception, the technical decisions of lines and planes that play out to become fine art featuring locales in modernist values”.
Fairweather House and Garden is famously known for their upscale artists launches.  For the February Art Walk, hors d’oeuvres will be offered by Sharon Krask, chef. 
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