ABOUT MY CADDO LAKE PAINTINGS

My Caddo Lake painting series serves many purposes. I love the challenge as a classically trained oil painter to stop and “sharpen my saw” and make myself paint in a very traditional, classical way.

My training from Jerry Newman at Lamar University in the late 60’s and early 70’s created the love in me to paint nature and the discipline to be able to do it in a realistic manner.

Caddo Lake is the perfect subject for me because of all the challenges – water, trees, reflections, water lilies, moss, and sky.
I choose to paint this subject in this manner because it is so beautiful without re-interpretation.

I think it needs to be done as simple and direct as possible. The nature of it’s beauty tells the entire story by itself.

CADDO LAKE, PLACE OF DREAMS
Arlington Museum of Art
201 W. Main, Arlington, TX
Date TBA

"Caddo Lake, Place of Dreams" is an exhibition of Original Paintings, Drawings and Fine Art Photography by Bruce Tinch. The exhibit celebrates the contribution of Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson and her life-time of work dedicated to natural conservation and beautification programs using wildflowers, as well as her work for wetland conservation and anti-litter campaigns. Viewers will be emerged in a unique total experience of the senses including natural swamp sounds playing through the museum, tanks of live water lilies in the main museum lobby, and tree limbs covered with Spanish moss.

The exhibition was launched at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas in September 2008 and was claimed by the Center as the best exhibition they ever housed, attracting a large attendance from all over the U.S.