“My paintings are about my experiences and feelings toward nature,” says Minnesota native Christopher Copeland matter-of-factly. He has always known art was his calling, immediately enrolling in art school after high school and staying on that path ever since. He was influenced by American Impressionists such as Willard Leroy Metcalfe, John Henry Twachtman, and George Inness, and adopts their approach when painting the landscape. “I don’t believe in copying nature verbatim,” Copeland says. “Inness was influenced by his own personal experiences; his art was inspired by his memories and years of being out in nature.” Having grown up surrounded by the hayfields, river valleys, and farmsteads of the Midwest, Copeland’s work incorporates the beauty of the landscape with the memories and emotions it awakens in him.
