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Ed Klink - A featured artist at the Lanning Gallery [Sedona Arizona]
 

In Loving Memory of Ed Klink
                         He talks with trees.....

 

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.

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 CAME WEST
 TO PAINT
The story behind
Ed Klink’s love for the land.
Excerpts from an article
 by Catherine Coggan
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.

"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 mind."
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.
 

"Center of Attention"
 Acrylic on Canvas
24" x 18"
"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.

"Contrast"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 30"
 
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.

"My paintings are about texture. My foregrounds are very abstract. What makes them landscapes is the trees."

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"Red Orchard"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
23" x 27"

"Green Fields Forever"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 30"
--- Sold ---
 
 
 

"Shades of Red"
 Wrap Acrylic on Canvas Triptych Painting
40" x 20" each panel

"Golden Specs"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
14" x 11"
--- Sold ---
 

"Brothers III"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
14" x 11"
 --- Sold ---

"Lots of Legs"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 30"

"The Bachelor"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
12" x 9"
--- Sold ---
 

"All Together"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
14" x 11"
--- Sold ---

 

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