Eric Wuest
About The Artist
Eric Wuest was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He shares both a Swiss and Canadian citizenship. He began drawing and writing in his teen years and moved into painting only after retiring from a career as a Registered Nurse.
Eric has now been an exhibiting artist for fifteen years. He has participated in the Artists in Residence program through the Salem Art Association. He recently won third place award in the professional category at the All Oregon Juried Exhibition at the 2006 Oregon State Fair for his drawing “Gone Fishing”. The same charcoal drawing was included in the Around Oregon Annual Juried Exhibition at the Corvallis Art Center (October 2006). His paintings and drawings were shown in the Governor’s office at the State Capitol Building in May and June of 2004.
Artist's Statement
I use landscape and the figure as primary subjects. Both can have an “out of time” quality which transcends the moment along with encouragement for a viewer to go a bit beyond themselves, if only for a moment. Artists brashly attempt to come to grips with the nature of Nature and with luck, are able to add to those understandings their own view, certain emotional elements, and magical colors pretending to be light. I believe a successful painting is one that provokes and pushes us beyond our likes and our tastes. It may soothe, it may irritate. And it should reflect some of the ambiguity and relative truths which make up our lives.
