Original acrylic and pastel landscape paintings by Dave Mazza. Subjects include Oregon's High Desert, Portland's urban natural areas, Columbia River Gorge, California's Lost Coast and Great American Desert scenes.
Original acrylic and pastel landscape paintings by Dave Mazza. Subjects include Oregon's High Desert, Portland's urban natural areas, Columbia River Gorge, California's Lost Coast and Great American Desert scenes.
I am a native of the American West. Its vast spaces have always spoken to me. The West's deserts, plains, mountains and skies reflect Nature at its most elemental. The emotional experience of confronting those elements is what I seek to capture in my art. While my paintings are based on locations in the Pacific Northwest, California and the Southwest, the emphasis is not on photographic realism but the emotional content of a particular scene.
I work in acrylics, finding their plasticity and quick drying time a spur to working quickly and more intuitively. I create my paintings in the studio, relying on plein air sketches, reference photographs and memory. By these means I feel better able to recall my original experience I wish to communicate through the painting.
Art should be accessible to everyone. To that end, I keep my prices low, offer a number of discounts and am happy to work out payment plans and trades to help people own a piece of art.
Dave Mazza Fine Art is a sole proprietorship of Dave Mazza.
