Stars in Our Sky Series #5

John Hulsey's paintings

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY!!

Stars in Our Sky #5

John Hulsey, painting

Last month, in the Stars in Our Sky segment, we featured the beautiful paintings of Ann Trusty.  This month we’re featuring the work of her husband, John Hulsey.  They are an amazingly talented couple.

John Hulsey’s paintings are included in many hundreds of private and corporate collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, The Hudson River Museum, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, and the United States Embassies in Australia and Jordan. 

John’s art has been featured in numerous books and art magazines: American Artist magazine, Watercolor, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Review, and International Artist. He has been awarded residencies by the National Parks Service at Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park.  In 2019, he created a seven-part series of articles for International Artist,  A Painter’s Journey, which chronicled the development of his sixty-piece solo exhibition, Transcendence, which opened in February 2023 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. In 2024, John’s artwork and TV interview with the late Graham Stevenson will be placed in a time capsule by NASA’s Viper Lunar Rover on the South Pole of the moon as part of the Lunar Codex project.

ZAN and PA:  John, we love your work and Ann’s and we’re happy to feature you on successive months of Stars in Our Sky.  Tell us, what inspires you?

JOHN: It astonishes me to say this now, but I have been working as an artist for over fifty years. I have always been an artist as long as I can remember and, once introduced to painting, I never looked back. Having spent so many years learning the creative crafts and honing my artistic eye, I can find inspiration around me wherever I go, but nowhere as rich as in Nature. It is why I live in the woods in a house my artist-wife Ann and I built here. To live in the woods is to be in constant contact with Nature’s language and sublime revelations, so indifferent to the agendas of mankind, and yet so primally imbedded in every person’s subconscious. Nature is an indefatigable teacher and an inexhaustible source of subject matter for my artistic work, and it is a great, yet humbling honor to attempt to translate Nature’s subtle impressions into pictures and words. It is the best sort of life.

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Primavera

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