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HE CAME WEST TO PAINT
The story behind Ed Klink’s love for the land.
Excerpts from an article by Catherine
Coggan
After you have made enough money, what mountain is left to
climb? It is a question most of us, unfortunately, never get to
ask. But Ed Klink asked it a few years back and the answer sent
him in a direction he’d never dream possible.
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Klink grew up in Delmar, New York, as he says,
"very poor. My parents were divorced and things were tough." He
went to West Point and studied math and science. "I was caught
up in getting out and being successful," he admits. "There
wasn’t room in my life for anything else."
He did two tours in Vietnam and then went
to the Harvard Business School. After working for a while in the
Boston area, he headed out to Indianapolis, Indiana to take a
better job. Ultimately he wanted to work for himself. He teamed
up with a partner and they bought a business that manufactures
wax products for automobiles. For years he and his partner
concentrated on making enough money not to have to worry about
money ever again. And that’s when Klink had his epiphany.
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"Center of
Attention"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
24" x 18" |
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"I was searching for something else to do.
I’d lost my passion for business but I’m not the retiring kind.
I was looking for another passion." So he went searching. "I was
open to anything, really. I didn’t go into this with a closed
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Then he took a drawing course
at the Heron Art School in Indianapolis. Almost immediately he
knew he had found his next mountain. "I absolutely loved it. I
drew for six months. Then I decided that I wanted to paint. I
bought paints and took a whole lot of seminars." With each
course, his spirit moved closer and closer to total devotion. |
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"All
Together"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
14" x 11" |
| "Then, I hooked up with an artist in
Corrales, Tom Perkinson. I studied there for six months, then
moved on to study with two artists in Santa Fe. There my wife,
Shelia, and I fell in love with New Mexico." For the couple,
moving to New Mexico was like moving to heaven, Ed could paint
and Shelia could study alternative health and spirituality. |
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"Green Acres"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
24" x 21" |
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| Shelia is Klink’s best and toughest
critic. "She’s great. She can look at my paintings and know
exactly what they need," he says proudly. He paints trees set on
a high, far horizon flanked by swathes of foreground. "I’ve
always loved landscape," he points out.
His paintings look Dutch in their
smoothness. Layer on layer brings a vivid texture. The trees
stand clustered like field animals. Slightly fuzzy with thin,
leggy trunks, they look vulnerable and suddenly delicate, almost
human. |
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"My paintings are about texture. My
foregrounds are very abstract. What makes them landscapes is the
trees."
Click on an image to see a larger view.
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"In the Middle"
Acrylic
Painting
20" x 24" |
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"Light Blue"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
24" x 20" |
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"Contrast"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 30" |
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"Golden
Specs"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
14" x 11" |
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"Sunny Set"
Acrylic
Painting
18" x 11" |
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"Shades of
Red"
Wrap Acrylic on Canvas
Triptych
Painting
40" x 20" each panel |
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"Spotlight
II"
Acrylic on Board
Painting
14" x 11" |
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"Brothers
III"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
14" x 11" |
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"All in Red"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 24"
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"Sisters III"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
14" x 11" |
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"Little
Trees"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
14" x 11" |
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"End of Day"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting
40" x 30" |
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"Summer
Sun"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
24" x 16" |
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