Another painting in my series of South Cumberland State Park in Tennessee, completed this month. I love this quote by the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean". These words ring true to me. Isn't that why we return to the woods again and again? The sky, the woods and fields, brooks and meadows, the hills and the ravines, are the best schoolmasters, and can teach us much more than we can ever learn from a book. And so I return to the mountains in search of another splendorous journey. Detail, Wash Your Spirit Clean, By Eric Buechel, Oil on Canvas,
My new piece is one in a series of paintings documenting the park system in Tennessee. By hiking various parks near my home, I've had an opportunity to view many beautiful scenes and varied terrains as well as the distinct seasons here in the beautiful South. My desire is to capture the very essence of the parks and it's ever changing light with the passing of those seasons. In this work I've taken the liberty of snapping a photo of my wife Kathy's son Landon hiking along the edge of a ravine in South Cumberland State Park. Although the composition and concept are always very important to me, here the depiction of light was paramount. In the painting "On The Edge Of Glory", without hindrance
