"3 Friends: Home & Away"
Ted Gentry's paintings
on April 9, 2010
Ted has said that art has always been a part of his life. A civil engineer by education, his electives while at Northeastern University included art appreciation and creative drawing classes and had the wonderful opportunity to have the Boston Museum of Fine Arts across Huntington Avenue and a regular part of the art curriculum. Ted also progressed through a portion of the Famous Artists School program while attending Northeastern.
Ted took up oil painting more seriously in 1994 and honed his skills through many classes and workshops. Charles Sovek, with whom he has participated in a dozen workshops throughout New England , has had a particularly strong influence on his work. Charles Sovek's simple, colorful style of painting and his joy in painting are attributes that Ted tries to instill in both his plein air and still life paintings. He has been fortunate to paint with the renowned Cape Ann painter and author Charles Movalli , Dale Radcliff and Stephan Pastuhov. Charles Sovek invited Ted to participate in a plein air event in the spring of 2004 in Provincetown , Massachusetts that was filmed for a PBS special on Plein Air Painting in America .
Ted's work is typically full of color and light. He enjoys painting a still life with a bit of whimsy and painting landscapes in the plein air style. Ted's preferred medium is oil paint but has also worked in pen and ink, pastel and watercolor on occasion. Ted has enjoyed completing commissioned pieces for collectors who desired to create a piece that helped maintain a connection to their memory of a special place and/or event.
The Impressionists' styles, as well as the light-filled work of the Cape Ann and Cape Cod artists are strong influences in Ted's work. He enjoys the camaraderie of painting with friends at New England 's evocative landscape settings at all times of the year. Ted has said that he can get lost for hours while trying to capture in two dimensions some of the fabulous three-dimensional vistas and scenes that we all carry fondly in our memories of our favorite places in Massachusetts and while traveling in Europe and the Caribbean .
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"After the Swim"
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"St. Bart's Library"
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"We'll Leave a Light On, Rome"
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"Broad & Federal, Nantucket"
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"Madaket Bridge"
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"Monomoy, Nantucket"
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"What Else is in the Bag?"
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"Moulin Goult"
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"Onions & A Bottle"
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"Cokes"
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"Waiter, Les Deux Magots, Paris"
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"Sam I Am"
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"Danish"
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"Fresca"
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"Turps"
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"Trastevere Trattoria"
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"Rainy Day Shopping, Paris"
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"Trastevere Laundry Day"
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"Hazy Hot Humid, Nantasket"
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"Nantasket Umbrellas"
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"Weir River Farm"
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"Provence Bench"
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"Provence Gate"
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"Provence Kitchen Door"
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"Ready for the Snow"
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"Still Life with Dickens"
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"Sanford Farm, Nantucket"
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"Roman Piazza"
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"Roman Ruins"
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"Spanish Steps Balustrade, Rome"
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"Trevi Fountain, Rome"
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