Jeff Gage photo
Written by Stacey Breheny
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
As an artist, I had a wonderful opportunity to work with a team
of artists, sculptors, a designer and several naturalists to create
murals for three habitats in the NW Florida Hall at the FLMNH. Creating
museum habitat backgrounds is different from creative easel painting
in two main ways. The first is that you are trying to create the
illusion that the three dimensional foreground continues seamlessly
into the painted background which requires cooperation with the
foreground artists and the lighting designer. The second is that
the painting must be scientifically accurate in terms of the ecosystem.
It is unusual for painters to get to work in a team endeavor, and
I am glad I had this opportunity. |
