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showcasing the artist's paintings
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Artist Bio
Joel is a Tennessee native and received a Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He met his wife Rhonda while at UT, they made Knoxville home and raised their three children there. Joel has traveled much of the U.S. and still gets inspiration from those trips. He previously has shown his work in galleries and has paintings in public and private collections. He currently enters his work in one or two shows per year and most of his paintings can be found on Instagram at joelkeasart. If you are interested in purchasing a painting you can contact the artist at joelkeas525@gmail.com
Artist statement
I paint the places, people and things that catch my eye and strike a chord with me. I prefer not to be verbose or philosophical about the process. I like what the artist Carl Sublett said about painting...."the true value of a man's art, I believe, does not depend on the capacity with which it is received by others, but rather the degree of personal conviction exercised in a lifetime of creating it. Because I believe no statement is too small to make, when I have something to say I put it down immediately and try not to concern myself with the dimensions of the outcome. No matter how ambitious the effort, no painting is ever more than a fragment of the whole. If I look for too much, I may lose all."