CARLENE REEVES

CARLENE REEVES

Painting is about seeing light, color harmonies, and visual relationships. Whether I'm depicting a landscape, portrait, or bouquet of flowers, I focus on the qualities that both distinguish and unify the objects in front of me. That dichotomy sets a mood which I hope to convey to others. If I've done my job successfully, I know that viewers will take away their own experience of seeing the beauty and perfection of what is often considered commonplace."

Carlene Reeves has been a student of nature and art all of her life. Drawing, painting, and exploring art history were her pursuits at San Jacinto College and the University of Houston, Texas. When she moved to Taos, New Mexico, in the mid-1990s, she became a student of light and color.
Carlene and her husband Ron Rencher, who is a well known landscape artist, recently moved to Utah from Taos, NM. Ron is originally from St George, Utah with roots that go back over 120 years in the state as a descendent of one of the early pioneers of Southern Utah.

Reeves' painterly canvases have found audiences locally and internationally. Collectors appreciate not only her orchestration of color and values, but also her expressionistic brushwork, which creates a three-dimensional experience on the canvas. When asked about her influences, Reeves says she strives to achieve the luminosity of impressionist Frank Vincent DuMond and the colorist qualities of California impressionist Franz Bischoff. To achieve their technical mastery, Reeves has pursued classes at the Scottsdale Artists School, Arizona, the Nicolai Fechin School of Art, Taos, and independent studies with alla prima painters, including Lajos Markos, Kevin Macpherson, Greg Kreutz, Huihan Liu, Marlin Linville, Dan Gerhartz, Sherrie McGraw, Robert Johnson, and William Henry Earle, who was a student of DuMond . For the past years, Reeves herself has become a sought-after instructor.