Paul K. Hill is one of the most important landscape painters working in America today.  His unique blend of plein aire and studio created paintings are what sets his work apart. 

The plein aire paintings are produced outside of the studio on location, often in remote wilderness areas.  This kind of work demands that the artist explore, experience, and discover this wilderness through the act of painting.  Here a unique language, spirit, color, beauty, light or story emerges and is captured spontaneously.  Not only does this practice yield many fresh and immediately successful works it also produces many oil sketched ideas that Mr. Hill uses as guides and serve as foundations for studio executed paintings.

Largely invented, these studio landscapes are ambitious attempts at painting the landscape using intuitive methods to arrive at a sense of place and light.  These paintings are a more defining kind of landscape that closely parallel events in the artist’s life.  On a much grander scale than the plein aire pieces these paintings function as backdrops to the matrix of life but also entertain a more meaningful discussion regarding our relationship to the landscape found inside and outside of us all.