BIOGRAPHY

Don Crocker is a graduate of Stanford University and its Law School. His successful legal and crisis management career spanned 40 years. He has been an explorer of wilderness spaces since childhood. Don has studied outdoor painting with some of the finest American Plein Air artists in beautiful locations. He has painted extensively in scenic and wilderness areas along the California coast, Alaska and California's nature preserves.

Don is an artist member of the California Art Club and a signature member of the American Impressionist Society. He has been juried in numerous major shows and often his paintings sold to collectors. He had a major show of 35 sunset and nocturnal paintings titled "The Colors of Twilight" for which a 64 page catalogue is available.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

As a native Californian, my muse has been the early California Impressionists who painted our State's natural beauty post Statehood and pre-subdivision, emphasizing the amazing light at all times of the day and night. I often paint at sunrise, sunset, and in the moonlight. My focus is local scenes of the land, sea, and sky from Palos Verdes north of Santa Barbara and wilderness areas, including Alaska.

Workers harvesting California's beautiful crops are another interest. The "plein air" lighting for my painting is often before the Sun's direct rays have yet warmed the earth or when it's mostly done with its days work and the evening's light is the primary source of beautiful illumination.