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Featured artist: Tim Deibler
Since Tim first saw the 1956 movie “The Mountain” as a young boy, his single focus has been to paint landscapes. By age 13 he was drawing the famous Matterhorn after his parents bought him Edward Whymper’s book “Scrambles Amongst the Alps.”
Tim was born and raised in Oklahoma where he studied with many of the area’s best known artists. He spent most of his evenings copying paintings from art instruction books and teaching himself how to paint from photographs.
“I used to frustrate my teachers because I wouldn’t copy the photo exactly. I’ve always used a photograph just as a starting place, not as a finishing place. A photo shows details but no emotion, I try to capture the emotion I feel and let the details fall where they may.”
This early training proved invaluable to Tim, as now he paints large landscapes from his photo reference files and his location studies. He was one of Art for the Parks’ top 100 artists in 1997 with his painting of Yellowstone’s “Old Faithful” being selected from over 2,300 artists. This painting appears in the book “Art from the Parks.”
Tim’s work can be found in many private and corporate collections, including former President Bill Clinton’s.
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