BigTrees Artisan Lowell Feil has an extensive background in landscape and documentary photography, dating back to the later days of the Viet Nam conflict, when he was the Unit Photographer for Harbor Clearance Unit ONE, a Special Forces “Riverine Unit.”In the mid to late 1990’s Lowell developed a keen interest and natural talent in digital video media and produced a number of highly successful Corporate documentary and “case study” videos coined “Internet Customer Success Stories” featuring Top-Tier retailers like Roland, US, Miele Appliance & J.A. Henckel. Irene Feil of New Pine Creek, Oregon first developed this natural art medium in the mid-1970’s when she and her husband Emerson visited local log milling operations where she found rejected pieces of Ponderosa Pine planks that still had bark on the sides. Rather than using this for firewood, Irene and Emerson would take these “green timber” pieces home where they would transform them into art-medium; Sanded and sealed so that she could apply her oil-painting skills to create a unique vertical panoramic nature picture that had a 3D perspective.
Taking a closer look (below)
- This 22″x13″ original oils painting on a BigTreesArt “Plank” was completed by Irene in the mid-1970’s.
- Note how the artist extended tree limbs from the bark into the foreground.
- Note also how the artist creatively interpreted the width of the “two trees” and took the liberty to paint the bark definition and shadows of the bark into the foreground.
