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Carl Rowe - Idaho landscape painter
As someone involved in both the visual arts and concert dance, my approach to landscape painting is theatrical. I am drawn to strong color, emotional lighting, and a human perspective.
Idaho is a land with such powerfully evocative landscape that it is a treasure house for a landscape painter. It is why I live here and find never-ending motifs to paint.
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- Carl Rowe
- Boise, Idaho, United States
- Since 1976 I have been a dancer and choreographer. For the past 21 years I am co-artistic director of the Idaho Dance Theatre in Boise, a professional contemporary dance company. I am currently working on my 101st dance. In 1990, I sheepishly began to explore the visual arts by first drawing and then beginning to paint the Idaho landscape around me to which I have always been unusually sensitive. For some reason, this place feels deeply personal and visually comforting. Starting in 1995, I began a second professional arts career in painting to accompany my career in dance. These two areas of art making, through their different natures, have given me a balanced life as an artist. Dance, which is a very social art and quite public and intense, contrasts with painting, which is a more solitary pursuit without the hubbub of performances. Each informs the other for me and each helps balance the excesses of the other.
