Alex Trapp... Mt. Rainier and the Valley Below
Alex Trapp is an award winning and published contemporary American Impressionist painter. As a longtime resident of Seattle, WA, Alex spends many of the wet months painting in his studio bringing to life memories of the seasons before. "I use plein air studies I create in the field to remind me of a time and place from the seasons before. I work to bring those feelings back to life in the studio in order to offer the viewer a visual poem."
During the dry season Alex can be found painting the landscape En Plein Air in the Northwest and beyond. "I paint anything that I find of interest, but mostly I'm inspired by nature. I appreciate the context of learning from it. The challenges that come with painting En Plein Air are complex, to say the least, but I like that. It's an endless love of learning."
As a self-taught artist, Alex looks to the history books, paintings, and writings of impressionist masters like, Edgar Payne, Sergei Bongart, and Claude Monet. "I'm influenced by a number of American, Russian, and French Impressionists. My personal intent in landscape painting is to stay true to the harmony of nature as I see it while at the same time, attempting to achieve a visual melody for the viewer to experience through design, light and color.
During the dry season Alex can be found painting the landscape En Plein Air in the Northwest and beyond. "I paint anything that I find of interest, but mostly I'm inspired by nature. I appreciate the context of learning from it. The challenges that come with painting En Plein Air are complex, to say the least, but I like that. It's an endless love of learning."
As a self-taught artist, Alex looks to the history books, paintings, and writings of impressionist masters like, Edgar Payne, Sergei Bongart, and Claude Monet. "I'm influenced by a number of American, Russian, and French Impressionists. My personal intent in landscape painting is to stay true to the harmony of nature as I see it while at the same time, attempting to achieve a visual melody for the viewer to experience through design, light and color.
