Many times the people that see me painting in the field are the ones that want to acquire that painting.... because it has become sentimental by virtue of their experience that day and by a personal connection we established which means the world to me. What is specifically unique about your work, how can a painting be recognised as a Carolyn Kollegger? That is an interesting question because unlike some artists that are identified by a certain specific genre selection, I feel I am identified by the geographical location of my work. And, I am a storyteller. I am out there in the field with extreme temperatures and often, circumstances, and I share that back story with art patrons! Even something as light and funny (now!) as the time I got attacked by a bee on my easel when I started to paint, I share about a painting! While I am identified as a Landscape and Wildlife Artist of the West, that encompasses much... much territory and varied flora and fauna. I do love and want to paint everything, all if it!! This of course requires one getting good at everything! You need to learn about and get good at all sorts of animal anatomy - horses, deer, Big Horn Sheep! And locale... desert,
mountains,
beach,
street
scenes
from
everywhere... I love it all!! I have a Western Children’s Series I started years ago and this, along with Commissions I do, requires figure work and portraiture. So, for me, I can't restrict myself and, believe me, I've thought about it, and would love to do that, but that isn't being true to me. It has been said though, that to be good at any one discipline within oil painting you need to have experienced all of them... that only makes you a stronger, better, artist, and I believe this is true! At the end of the day, I feel people will be able to identify me by my Plein Air and landscape work with my consistent color palette, clarity of focal point, solid representationalism with detail, and beautiful refined brushwork! How do you want your paintings to impact viewers? I want people that contemplate my work to be impacted by the amount of love I pour into my subjects and compositions. They will get clarity of what I have chosen to paint by how I thoroughly, but not laboriously, I render my work. I pay deep attention 334