NEIL WELLIVER

Neil Welliver was an American painter known for his large-format landscape paintings and woodcuts. Often depicting profound yet unassuming views of birches, streams, and evergreens in rural Maine. Welliver, like many of his peers, applied a methodology based in abstraction towards the translation of atmosphere and light into paint.

Of his practice he said, “To imitate nature you need a tube of air or something and I don’t have a tube of air, so I found something that makes it look like there’s air in the color.”