Oil on Board. 15 3/4" by 17 3/4" framed. Joe Wayne (Born 1970) is active/lives in Montana. Joe Wayne is known for Landscape, western, wildlife. To Joe Wayne, painting is like a good poem: Neither reveals all its secrets at once. "You come back to a poem time and again; sometimes you find something new and beautiful that you didn‚t see before. It‚s the same with agood painting. You should be able to find something interesting in it year after year." Whether he's focused on a back country cabin or the bend in a snow-crusted river, Wayne paints scenes that keep asking for another viewing. In the process of creating one of the impressionistic landscapes that he shows in Jackson and Bozeman galleries, he paints with broad lines, never using two brush strokes when one will do, it's an approach that he necessarily applies to other aspects of his life as well. From juggling his hours at the Livingston foundry where he works to choosing a site for his next painting he is constantly conserving time, balancing his interests. Wayne has learned the best way to have it all is by making his work his play. "Whether I‚m fishing or hiking, no matter what I'm doing, I look at what's in front of me, and I'm seeing in terms of, how would I paint this?" Much as he loves plein air work, Wayne is quick to cite its drawbacks. "You have to be ready for failure because you're not only painting and composing, you're dealing with the elements and the bugs and the sun and the wind." Although Wayne enjoys painting with oils as well as watercolors, he leans more towards oils. Like some plein-air artists, Wayne starts his compositions in the field and finishes them in his studio, which he calls his haven. "It's kind of a secret place, where I can loose myself in my work. Time doesn't seem to exist here. Sometimes, the birds are chirping before I've even noticed that the sun is coming up. But I‚m not complaining. It's just what I do." Joe Wayne lives in Livingston Montana. He won a scholarship from the Great Falls Advertising Federation, and ended up studying at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver.