Morning Light

Pastel on Wallis Museum Grade Sandpaper
33" x 23"

Dick McEvoy

Dick McEvoy was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and lived most of his formative years in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

"I love to paint because I only paint what moves and excites me at a particular point in time. My art is not 'reporting' and it's not 'interpreting' ...it is simply my expression of pleasure."

He paints primarily impressionistic landscapes in pastel and oil. He is a signature artist member of Pastel Society of America, the Connecticut Pastel Society and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, and is President of the Connecticut Pastel Society.

Dick has his work in 160+ private and corporate collections. In the spring of 2007 Dick has a One-Man Show at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport CT; and he has paintings going to Art du Pastel's International exhibit in Normandy France, and to Taipei Taiwan. He has had work exhibited at Pastel Society of America, Connecticut Pastel Society, Audubon Artists, Kent Art Association, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Pastel Society of Maine, and the Ridgewood Art Association. In 2003, Dick took part in the Biennale Internationale dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy - a ten-day exhibition of nearly 900 artists from 72 countries.

"I love to do value sketches as I travel and then turn them into finished paintings in my studio."

At Brown University, he majored in Psychology, and took courses at R.I.S.D. While at Wharton Business School he studied with Violette DeMazia at The Barnes Foundation. He is mostly self-taught, but is quick to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of his two mentors: Herman Margulies and Frank Federico. Dick and Frank have painted on location together for the last 10+ years.

Dick paints on location ("plein-air") whenever possible, but because of his schedule, more often than not relies on value-sketches on-site and photos to be converted to paintings in his studio. He had a feature article in the Pastel Journal (August '05) and was chosen to be included in two recently published books: Pure Color, Best in Pastel III and L'Art du Pastel en France ('06).

Newtown, CT
http://dickmcevoypaintings.com