Jim Gola, Artist
23908 NW Toenjes Road
 Woodland, WA 98674

STUDIO PHONE: (360) 263-2201

The design of custom residences has been my primary mode of earning a living for the past 40 years. Most professional designers I know are involved in other forms of artistic pursuits. I am no exception.

These pursuits have traveled alongside the one that has put the bread and butter on our table. I have always had a continuous involvement with most forms of graphic art, in particular, that of my first love, oil painting.

 Included on this web site are a few earlier artistic "accomplishments".
The above quotes bordering the word "accomplishments" indicate that the challenges are always great when re-entering the fine art arena after exiting the commercial field.

As an artist, I am currently greatly enamored with landscape painting including plein air work. My influences are mainly derived from French artists of the Barbizon School alongside the late great American landscape artist George Inness. For the past thirty years I have ingested much of his work, both viewing his actual painting surfaces in the originals and in the many excellent publications available on his life and work. Hopefully my work might reflect some minute traces based on my admiration of the work
of this great landscape master. 

Your comments are always welcome.

Giclée* is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints
from a digital source using ink-jet printing.
The term is often used instead of Inkjet in art shops.