Ed Mell
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"Seeing the real thing has much more impact than a photographic representation of nature, so in order to duplicate nature, I like to push it a little further and bring back some of the impact that nature has in real life."
-- Ed Mell
Ed Mell was successfull advertising designer in New York. When he was given an opportunity to return to Arizona to teach summer classes in silk screening and drawing on a Hopi Reservation, he welcomed the chance to move back to his home state.
Back in Arizona, he began sketching landscapes. Colored pencils slowly turned into paints and by 1978 he had made the transition from commercial artist to landscape painter. Mell brings an architectural eye to the desert, emphasizing graphic elements and stripping away details that do not serve his vision. From landscapes to storms, longhorn cattle to desert flowers, he presents the American Southwest in bold colors and lines, energizing the vistas with his singular style.
