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FRANK COLE

A rural upbringing in Virginia and  a busy life as a landscape designer and real estate investor have forged an artist of the land and sky and water. After BFA work at Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Yale, I worked at trying to make relevant paintings. I chose ocean and sky to offer up my feelings about man's arrogance toward nature, as well as nature's indifference to man, and the resulting emotional pressure that builds up. The vulnerability of weather and wave, but more so, the vulnerability of man.  

My use of storm, sunset and sunrise, and wave imagery also suggest the passage of time and the fleeting quality of time. These are images of events that occur every day but are infinitely changing. I want to respond/paint to these common events and let them tell a story. ​ 
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.  Take the folly of man's bouts with nature and nature's ensuing  scream, compress the image, use color and stroke, and tell a story the only way I know how. With paint. 
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collections include the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Portsmouth Museum, the Federal Reserve, CSX Corporation, Ethyl Corporation, Wheat First Securities, Drescher and Breit, McGuire Woods, and many private collections

available for commission work and delivery of work to interesting places

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