Contemporary Landscape Painter

Larry Bailey is a contemporary landscape painter living in Colorado. His modern approach to painting the landscape draws from his experiences living in New Mexico and hiking the wide-open skies and mountains of West Texas. These colorful landscapes are a real departure from formal realism and delves into the impressionistic and surreal side of the feeling that places the viewer into a magical non-representational location.

From his studio at the base of the Pike National Forest along the Colorado Front Range North of Colorado Springs, Larry is embraced by the area’s natural beauty. This secluded area called Perry Park boasts of vertical outcrops of pure white Dakota sandstone and eroded red Fountain sandstone, all surrounded by deep forests of Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir. He typically uses his own photos to sketch an idea, then paints in acrylics with marks of a No.8b pencil and charcoal markers. Larry has a background in painting with soft pastels using Mi Tientes and Kitty Wallis sanded paper or his own sanded surfaces made with gesso and pumice powder. Look for some new pastel paintings soon.

“There’s something magical or mystical about the places I paint.” 

“I would like to leave viewers of my art with a sense of the Southwest they can relate and could draw from their own personal experiences that reminds them of that painting..”

“A sense of value is important to me.  Above all else, I want each painting to come alive and change with the ambient light.  If I get the values right, the viewer will return again and again to see the painting go through these beautiful phases.”