http://jeffericksontheartist.com/

 ‘Jeff Erickson earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Oregon University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Erickson is a faculty member at the University of Nevada, Reno and assistant director of the John Ben Snow Sculpture Center. As a working artist, he continues to pursue site-specific and public art and exhibits his work in public art collections, museums and galleries nationally. Erickson assisted sculptor Chris Drury in the construction of his exhibit Mushroom | Clouds and was co-creator of the exhibit Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation with Helen and Newton Harrison, exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art and at the Feldman Gallery in New York City in 2011.’

His abstract paintings depict landscape elements in a rather reduced and abstract way. The artist says he tries to capture and convey the textures of life. With his passion for water and the sea, Jeff Erickson creates abstract scenes of peacefulness, relaxation, and calmness.

The colors in his painting are simple and match each other. I feel comfortable and peaceful in his pictures. And I can get the feeling of generous. Color have the power to effect people's mind and express the feeling of painter. I think the gold between white and blue is the most perfect part of that painting. Like the real thing and like the dream. As colors are important elements in my painting. I am researching the color pallet in others' paintings.