Jeffrey Craven

JEFFREY H. CRAVEN

Evening Amends

Watercolor

7 x 11 inches, 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 framed

Signed lower left, JEFFREY H CRAVEN / EVENING AMENDS

Price: $2,300.00

Frame:

Custom, hand crafted frame from Gold River Gallery of Cedar City, Utah. Under Museum Glass offer UV Protection and Non Glare Coatings.

Jeffrey H. Craven lives along the Snake River with his wife Nancy, in a studio that he built from an old homestead home. He attended Idaho State University in Fine Art and worked as an illustrator for the Department of Energy before choosing to be a full-time professional artist in 1979.

Growing up in a home on the Idaho side of the Grand Tetons without phone, TV, or computer, art materials were his entertainment. The Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and the rural nostalgia of the Snake River and its valleys were and still are his wealth of material to draw from.

His many accomplishments include one man shows on Madison Avenue with favorable reviews from the Times and Art Speaks Magazine. Multiple acceptance into Arts for the Parks top 100 with the first show to hang in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian. He was inducted into the American Indian and Cowboy Artists Association and brought home gold medals. Other notable awards are medals won at the Inside George Phippen Memorial Shows, three best of show awards in the Seaside International Miniature competition with over 600 paintings entered.

Travis Humphreys of Gold River Gallery once said, “Your greatest accomplishment is just paying the bills for over 40 years and doing what you love to do.”

Jeff grew up living his artwork. He worked for a decade on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation and listened to the old women’s stories. Jeff worked as a cattle ranch hand and knows what a barn is used for and how easy it is to fall off a horse. He has stood in the streams depicting fisherman and experienced the read of the water and the correct drift for success. Almost without exception, his fishing scenes have been experienced by him. He has hunted and harvested most big and small game species but has elected to stalk with a camera or a sketch pad for many years now.

Thoreau once wrote, “Many men often fish a lifetime without realizing it’s not fish they are after.” It is the escape from the rat race, the connection with the earth. That is the feel that Craven is after. When you read a title such as “Reflection,” it might mean more than an image of trees in the stream. It is the mellow healing within the fisherman. “Atonement” might mean alone with nature, but also a redirection from the world to the earth. That is what Jeff is trying to gift the viewer.

Craven says, “Need to get to work. Should I pick up a brush or hook up the drift boat? Either is a part of a great job.”