“Along The Way West” Paintings by Michael Drury

Santa Barbara is excited to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Michael Drury.

The paintings were made on Autumn trips to the Western Great Basin, The Gaviota Coast and Point Reyes in Northern California.  Some reflect a growing interest in volcanic formations, and in search for the arrhythmic poetry of lava flows in particular.  The painter finds a correlation between the exposed ocean terraces and the uplifts Point Conception and the equally abrupt and expansive Sagebrush Sea of the Great Basin.  He sees the occasional man-made forms such as barns as reminders of how small human endeavors really are.  ” There is a comfort in that somehow. ”

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Michael Drury is a Native Santa Barbarian.

He received his education in the local school system, A B. A. in art studio at the College of Creative Studies, UCSB, and an M.F.A.

in art studio at UCSB.

Michael’s commitment to Plein-Air painting began when he met Ray Strong in 1970.  He has painted extensively in the high deserts of the Great Basin, The wild Coast of California, his home grounds of Western Santa Barbara county, and the West Coast of Ireland.  He is a life long surfer and a founding member of the Oak Group, an association of environmentally active landscape painters in Santa Barbara.

” I want to paint the other side of the mountain ”

– Michael Drury