Tina Bohlman

Master Signature Member AOT

"While it's important to look ahead and plan for the future, an artist must also be "in the moment, the now."

"Drawing with pencil and crayon as a child, I don't remember learning the skill....the ability has just always been there. I have been an outdoor painter for most of my art career. Nothing compares to working from life for inspiration and capturing light and emotion. Working plein air - especially in watercolor - requires strong technical skills and a large measure of intestinal fortitude. As the light changes moment by moment, every stroke must be without hesitation. It's a marathon race with the sun; spirited, emotional....and exhausting!”

A Texas native, Tina Bohlman has used the state in which she was raised as both the inspiration and the canvas for her art. A self-taught artist, Bohlman is well versed in several mediums but favors watercolor and oil to create breath taking plein air paintings and brilliant rural landscapes.

Bohlman is a veteran of numerous competition plein air and "quick draw" events annually, including Plein Air Easton (Maryland), Plein Air Southwest - Outdoor Painters Society, Sedona Plein Air Festival-Sedona AZ, En Plein Air Texas-San Angelo, TX, and Paint the Parks-Estes Park CO.

In a career span of 40 years, she has made quite an impact in her field earning more than 60 awards - two-thirds within the past 10 years - including 4 Best in Show titles. In addition to exhibiting, participating in competition events and taking commissions for her work, she is the founder and chairperson of the annual "Paint Historic Waxahachie", a plein air event celebrating it's 12th anniversary in 2017, showcasing more than 50 artists. Her work is collected worldwide; her originals hang in private and corporate collections in 34 states, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Republic of Benin, West Africa.

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