Artist Don Sahli

FASO Artist Website: http://sahlistudio.com Year Born: 1962 Last Apprentice of Sergei Bongart Sahli School of Art Price Range: $1,200.00 - $36,500.00 More info on Don Sahli's Canvoo profile Follow this artist

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Biography

looks for a label. I would like to be known as a painter - one who painted what he saw while wandering around on his Sahli strives to continually expand his horizons and push the limits, presenting and creating his work in ways that are unexpected, fresh and stimulating. Instead of being limited by the technical bounds of painting and the expected response to subject matter, he takes these boundaries and uses them as the jumping off point - the start of something, not the end. And while Sahli's work can be seen as traditional with old world qualities that come from his background in the Russian School of Painting, it can also be seen as modern and contemporary - on the cutting edge in terms of color, design and passion. A LIFE DECISION
Don Sahli made the decision to become a professional artist at a very early age. By the time he was 17 years old, art galleries in Texas and New Mexico were selling his paintings. Sahli has earned his living as a professional artist all his adult life. His work is presently represented in galleries in Vail, and Breckenridge, Colorado; along with Dallas and Midland, Texas. He is quite prolific, producing numerous studio pieces — including public works and corporate commissions — and innumerable sketches and plein air works each year. Sahli began his formal art education at the University of Texas in Austin. A year later, he met Sergei Bongart, the famous Russian colorist. At Bongart’s invitation, Sahli followed him to California and became his last apprentice. He remained with the Russian for three years, until Bongart’s death in 1985. EVOKING EMOTION
The broad range of Sahli's work shows his talent as a painter and his philosophy toward painting. “When I look at a painting, I [...]

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