"I’ve been making artwork professionally since 1986 and much of the work I’ve produced since that time revolves around the landscape of Western North Carolina.
I grew up in Black Mountain North Carolina and my father was a painter and art professor at Warren Wilson College. Starting when I was 10 or 11, my father used to take me along on his painting excursions, where I helped him carry his canvas and easel up different trails in the Blue Ridge. I would help him set up to paint for the day and then I was free to roam about making discoveries and reveling in the freedom of being outside and in the wilderness. It was during these times of solitude as I hiked and explored that my connection to nature and the mountains took root.
Although I have worked with other subjects and themes in my art over the past 30 plus years, the landscape continues to my home.
My teaching career began in 1986 when I was hired as an adjunct for UNC-Asheville where I earned my BFA in Painting and Drawing. After a number of years working as a professional artist, I decided to travel and spent a year in the pacific, New Zealand and Australia. Upon my return I attended the Hope School of Fine Art at Indiana University in Bloomington where I earned my MFA in Printmaking.
In addition to serving as an Adjunct Professor at UNC-Asheville, where I have taught figure drawing, intermediate and advanced drawing and pastel, I’m a Professor of Visual Art at Mars Hill University where I teach 2D foundations and drawing and painting.
I have taught in Florence and Perugia, Italy over a number of summers as well as leading pastel workshops around the country. My work is in various public and private collections including: The Asheville Art Museum, Craven County Arts Council, American Express Corporation, Furman University, The Breakers at Palm Beach, Western Carolina University and The Biltmore Estate."
Art Loeb, Black Balsam, 2019, Pastel on paper, 35 x 27 inches
Beaufort Apparition I, oil on panel, 2018, 9 x 12 inches
Black Balsam, 2020, Pastel on paper, 35 x 27 inches
Flats and Light, oil on panel, 2018, 12 x 9 inches
Spring Light on Potato Knob, 2020, Pastel on paper, 35 x 28 inches
