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A scene painted from a series of digitals taken in 2005 on a trip to Ireland. I was literally on the way to the little town of Ardara. The roads are narrow and I had to pull off closely to the ditch to get my shots as traffic whizzed by me. It would have been nice to have painted this on site, although the shifting sunlite patterns were coming and going.

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...