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     Hello!  I’m Greg Arens, or a reasonable facsimile.  I’ve been painting seriously since 1980, and as a result my artwork now hangs in hundreds of collections across the U.S. and in at least 7 other countries.  I mostly paint realistic watercolor landscapes, but also some oils, and other subjects.      I live… read more

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I painted this from a pencil sketch I’d made near the former Sugarloaf ski resort in Leelanau County Michigan.  Unlike most of my work, I executed this one in my studio, because you can’t paint watercolors when the temperature is below freezing!

I painted this on location, less than a mile from my home in the Virginia woods.  It took four consecutive mornings, during which the sun miraculously shone, allowing me to capture the colors and the lighting before the leaves all blew off their trees.

Way back in 2001 a patron sponsored me to visit his home in Sweden for 5 weeks, during which I painted up a storm. I also snapped a few photos, and many years later I painted this from one of those photos. This scene depicts a sheltered cove off of the Baltic Sea, which I… read more

I painted this watercolor on site in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau on an early spring day, with some of the year’s first pale leaves starting to unfurl. Most of my work is inspired by an undefinable emotional connection to particular places, and as if to prove this, it turns out that I’d sketched these trees with… read more

This was painted on location in an abandoned collapsing factory site in Springfield Ohio one fine summer day. I liked the composition well enough that I later painted a much larger version of the same scene, only I imagined it at night. I subsequently sold that version, yet feel that this one stands on its… read more