Presented by Guild of Boston Artists

Stapleton Kearns Stapleton Kearns attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, as well as the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This training led him to study with the atelier R.H. Ives Gammell and Robert Douglas Hunter in Boston, in 1974 at the historic Fenway Studios; at this time Stapleton was also continuing his study of art history at the Harvard Extension School. His years with Gammell gave him respect for classical draftsmanship, through daily practice, and he now applies and adapts these lessons to his outdoor impressionist landscapes. Beginning to define his style of painting Stapleton moved to Cape Ann, in Rockport, Massachusetts in the mid eighties. He was drawn to this area for it’s natural beauty and it’s history as an art colony, taking advantage of this history Stapleton began examining the work of New England landscape painters. Working directly from nature, Stapleton chooses scenes from which he knows he can make a painting with a poetic sense of place, while using his expressive brushstrokes to communicate ideas about beauty. “I try to present not only the appearance of the place but also a lovely arrangement of colors and shapes.”