{"id":4107,"date":"2012-08-01T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2012-08-01T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:42:01","slug":"jerry-sauls-named-august-artist-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/jerry-sauls-named-august-artist-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Sauls named August Artist of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida native Jerry Sauls has been named Artist Become<\/a>\u2019s August Artist of the Month. An established artist, Sauls began painting more than 25 years ago. What started out as a hobby turned in to a full-time profession in July of 1999 when his successes as an artist enabled him to leave his job as a computer applications manager and systems analyst and devote himself to his artistic career.<\/p>\n

\"BEARS<\/a>Sauls, who has resided in northern Florida his entire life, specializes in nature landscapes and still lifes. \u201cAs I see it, the challenge to me as an artist, is not only to paint nature in all her glory and diversity, but also to capture the emotion a scene evokes and incorporate that emotion into the mixing of paint on my palette and into my brushstrokes as the paint is applied to the canvas. Detail, color and texture are as important to my work, as light and the elements are to nature,\u201d Sauls explains.<\/p>\n

An avid traveler, Sauls seeks inspiration from the many places he has traversed including the Hawaiian Islands, Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, Alaska and the continental United States. \u201cWhen planning a new work of art, I like to think about something I have experienced, and how the image can be influenced by natural elements like light and weather. Often, I will begin working with a particular image in my mind, and as I progress, wonderful things seem to happen, transforming my visual image as it is passed onto the canvas. As a result, the completed work is sometimes very different from my original vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sauls exhibits nearly 50 works of art in his personal gallery<\/a> on Artist Become. Those works of art include:<\/p>\n