Artists who Paint Water

As I have been exploring ways of painting water, I have come across quite a few artists who have made water a central theme in their work. Laura Sanders, who was featured on the cover of New American Paintings # 77 has done a series of "Heads Above Water" as well as figures and animals in water. Jay Moore, a Colorado plein air painter is featured this month in an exhibition entitled "Water" at Saks Gallery in Denver. Gail Chase-Bien's show, Reflections, was at the Calvin Charles Gallery in Scottsdale in 2005. One of the most influencial artist on my work this semester is Forest Moses. I looked at his work at the beginning of the semester, and didn't realize how much I had incorporated his themes and abstraction of the landscape...until I completed my most recent painting.