The design of custom residences has been Gola’s primary mode of earning a living for
the past 40 years.
Most professional designers are involved in other forms of artistic pursuits.
Jim Gola is no exception.
The love of the fine arts often travel alongside the jobs that place the bread and butter
on the tables for most professional business men and women. These folks are involved
with the graphic art industries including architecture. Even during his business activities,
Jim Gola has maintained a continuous involvement with most forms of fine art, in particular,
the art and history of oil painting.
Included on this site are a few older artistic "accomplishments" coupled
with some of his latest ( See "Ireland Revisited” on www.jimgola.com ).
The above quotes bordering the word "accomplishments" indicate that the challenges
are usually great when re-entering the fine art arena from the business world.
Gola is currently greatly enamored with landscape painting. He also and takes part in
plein air activities during the spring and summer months in his great northwest.
Jim claims to be much influenced by the French artists of the Barbizon School,
but is also an avid follower of the late great American landscape artist,George Inness.
For the past twenty years he has ingested much of the work of Inness, both in studying
his originals and in the many excellent publications available on Inness’s life and work.
Hopefully to the viewer, Gola’s work might indicate a few traces of his admiration for t
this great landscape master painter.
As he continues to hone his eye for color - along with the myriad of techniques involved
in wielding the brush and knife, his next painting might even surprise him.
Stay tuned...you may follow Jim on his Art Blog at http://jimgola.wordpress.com/
Your comments are always welcome.
