Watercolor on paper

Internationally acclaimed artist Bert Seabourn is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and teacher who experiments intensively with creative vitality. He identifies most as a painter and has said, "I'll die with a brush in my hand." To Seabourn, painting is as natural as eating or breathing. Included in this exhibit are some of Seabourn's most recent paintings, all in his signature style of what he calls American Expressionism.

"My art is like the Oklahoma wind?ever changing," says the artist. "Some days I want my paintings to be more abstract and other days more realistic. I find myself constantly changing, growing, and finding new directions. This stylistic diversity is what keeps my life, and hopefully my art, interesting. I love to paint, and I hope it shows."

Bert Seabourn: “Paintings should contest the creative elements: Order versus chaos; contemplative versus emotional; raw versus refined. I try to make each piece of art a unique fusion of design, color, form and composition, using a layering of texture with drips, smears, runs and splatters. The responsibility of the artist is to make a unique experience for himself and the viewer.

My art can be found in the Vatican, Rome, Italy; the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; President Gerald R. Ford Library Collection, Ann Arbor, MI; President George Bush Collection, Houston, TX; American Embassy, London, England; China's National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; and Moscow University, Ulyanovsk, Russia. In Oklahoma City: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; the Oklahoma State Art Collection, and OKC's Museum of Art. My sculpture, "Wind Walker," a 23-foot tall bronze was unveiled at Southwestern Bell State Headquarters in Oklahoma City in 1997."