Coming Soon
August 6 - September 3
Steven Beseler
A self-taught artist from La Crosse, I have always had a passion for history and reading, finding beauty in the creativity and musicality of myths and legends. I try to capture and paint worlds that seem natural, but with a hint of history and fantasy to provoke a thought of the peculiar familiarity of unknown locations. Some of my works do have a story, but I enjoy simply placing the viewer in a world for them to go on their own adventure and forge their own path. Whether my work takes you to slow streams or mountain peaks, where legends become real, I attempt to reveal the understanding that all creativity begins with fragments of reality. Many of my works are placed in fantastical lands yet all that sometimes remains are the bones of the fantasy. Through these bits of intrigue, I hope to provide the opportunity for a little adventure to the viewer and a desire to know more about, or even be in, another world.
Steven Beseler
Oil
I feel that all my life I have been influenced creatively and artistically without even realizing it. When I started using oils Bob Ross was incredible to listen to and learn how to even begin painting seriously. I never really followed an artist or style until I embarked on this endeavor and when I discovered the Romantic painters and the Romantic style I was hooked. Johann Christian Dahl and his works to me really opened up something within me and blending my creativity, my passion for history, music, stories has led to making little moments in my paintings. I think the idea of that style gets translated in my mind into something different on the canvas but perhaps elements of that style are there. I can certainly feel it when I look at my works or when I am making them as they have a story about a moment in that time and place.