James Schaefer
I’m a landscape painter, and my paintings express an ongoing discovery of the grace of place: finding the welcome and entering in. Plein air painters of the past and modern painters who blend realism with color field painting, like Wolf Kahn and Fairfield Porter, inspire me. I live with my wife and kids on a mountain called “Lookout”, and my recent work focuses on mountain overlooks and views of the Tennessee River gorge.