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Elk & Creekby Chris Vest
32" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
Bluebird Rainby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Walking Crownby Chris Vest
28" x 24" Framed Artwork Frame
Late Snow Warblerby Chris Vest
32" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
Bison & Creekby Chris Vest
32" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
Red Grass IIby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Cinque Terreby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Como Villageby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Marina at Monacoby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Goldfinch Flowersby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Nuthatchby Chris Vest
20" x 24" Framed Artwork Frame
Prothonotaryby Chris Vest
20" x 24" Framed Artwork Frame
Red Grass Iby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Stream Bridgeby Chris Vest
26" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
Meadowlarkby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Apricot Creeperby Chris Vest
32" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
River Bridgeby Chris Vest
26" x 26" Framed Artwork Frame
Hummer Flightby Chris Vest
24" x 20" Framed Artwork Frame
Idyllic Farm Iby Chris Vest
28" x 24" Framed Artwork Frame
Avian Tropics Iby Chris Vest
26" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Avian Tropics IIby Chris Vest
26" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
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Chris Vest is a photo-pictorialist, in the tradition of Secessionists. This concept has been enlarged with the advancements in techniques made possible by the computer. Vest embraces the manipulation of images; he draws, paints, and etches upon them to the point that photography becomes more like painting. All of my images are offered as professionally printed giclee prints in editions limited to fifty numbered and signed pieces. Based in Dolores, Colorado, United States, Vest is much too critical of himself and work. He says he has a history of taking mediocre photos of birds. Each of his bird photographs are astonishing bearing in mind how difficult it was to capture on film or digitally the subjects in their natural settings. A bird dipper in the flowing creek or a bluebird perched on the broken barn window, for example, could not have come about easily each taking considerable knowledge, skill and patience. Through his impatience and crummy lens, he has been able to collect bird images from Alaska to Israel that are breathtakingly out-of-focus and dull. But he does have computer Photoshop skills, so he’s able to manipulate them until they become painterly. Vest has been a photographer and illustrator for more than 3 decades; unfortunately, all this time he had been working for employers who viewed art purely as commerce, so he decided that it’s time that he demonstrated to the world (and to himself) the nature of him own personal vision of making art to be something that inspires. He has achieved this vision through the framed Chris Vest art that are both inspiring and attractive.