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This pastel painting pictures a tranquil scene of a meandering creek seen on the outskirts of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The scene was fresh in my mind even though I painted it some five years after capturing the image with my digital camera.
I picked pastel as the medium as I wanted the color choices to be more spontaneous than I could achieve when using oils.

Born in Philadelphia in the late thirties, Jim Gola grew up heavily influenced by art and the cultural atmosphere contained in this bustling city. The city of brotherly love is still a thriving east coast art market that comprises some of the oldest art schools and galleries in America. Jim admits to spending numerous hours at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a youngster. Admiring much of the work of Americas past masters such as Inness, Moran, Chase, Homer and Bierstadt, among others. He then started to generate his lifelong love of oil painting. Moving to Oregon in the early sixties, while free lancing in art, Jim was introduced to the field of architecture. Upon receiving commissions to...