 Hank Pitcher
"I grew up on the coast of Southern California and I have been painting the vanishing beauty of that landscape for over 25 years. I work on my paintings outside, in front of the subject, because I like to be in nature, and because I cannot get what I want from sketches, or photographs, or from memory. Sometimes I return to an area for many years before I feel I have a clear idea about it. But the landscape painting has always been about our evolving relationship with the land we live on. I want my paintings to be about the present and I believe I have to be present to be a part of traditional painting."
--Hank Pitcher
Hank Pitcher is a native of Santa Barbara, born in 1949. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and College of Creative Studies in 1970 where he has been teaching since1971. He works primarily with the landscape though he is also known for his figurative paintings and drawings that chronicle contemporary California life. "His paintings are lush, light-filled coastal landscapes emphasizing the powerful influence of the Pacific on the western frontier." Pitcher is one of the "core faculty" of College Creative Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
