The most powerful truth from my artwork is not a likeness of something seen. It lies in the captured expression of what is there, and a lived experience for the viewer.

In landscape abstraction as in portraiture, it is the emotion which imparts meaning.

Many well-known artists with classical training realized that expression speaks more clearly than realism, and their work is memorable because they created their own version of reality.

This fresh viewpoint shapes a personal world which can be shared.

The subjects of my landscape abstractions are therefore no specific features of the land, but the atmosphere, mood, and psychological charge of being there.

Reduced to essentials, this artistic direction builds emotion even with flat color—and minimal form derived from simple shapes, blocks, or tilted planes. Anecdotal detail is reduced so that composition and rhythm carry the feeling.

These apparent simplifications are not shortcuts, but the main instruments of feeling. The viewer’s eye carries this forward into a personal experience.


Key to your life as an artist is to have a task, something you do your entire life, a center where you bring all your vision, your heart and skills, every day you are alive. And this goal must be unattainable.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Eugene Oregon Public Library
Ilikai Waikiki Wedding Chapel

EXHIBITIONS

2026
Celebration of Creativity
Fine Art Exhibit & Sale
“Origami Cloudscapes”, eight hard-edge impressionist landscape abstractions

2007
Artistic Impressions Gallery
Prescott, Arizona
Hard-edge impressionist landscape abstractions

2005
Arts Prescott Gallery
Prescott Arizona
Contemporary Southwest Art Glass

2003
Maurizio Restaurant Gallery
Morgan Hill California
Oil and Acrylic landscape abstractions

1980
Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
30 Art Glass Panels

1976
Pinnacle Gallery
Palm Springs, California
Six Sculptures in Mirror Glass

1974
Company Store Gallery
Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Rust Painting and Sculpture

MAGAZINE ARTICLES
“Color Considerations”, BYTE magazine 1984
“Glass”, Glass Magazine, 1980
“Stained Glass, the Third Dimension”, Glass Magazine, 1980
“Three Dimensional Design for Art Glass”, Glass Studio Magazine, 1979

EDUCATION
University of California, 1971, B.A., Mathematics

Russell Lee Baldwin