With a talent passed down from grandfather to father to son, Mark Allen Boedges chose to make art his career, despite coming from a practical background that accepted art as a hobby, but not as a career. His grandfather was an oil painter with a full-time gig building musket rifles. His father, a gifted draftsman, worked instead at the phone company for 25 years, then shifted to information technology when computers burst on the scene.

Mark Boedges

Through the Woods
Oil
12″ x 24″
“Painting outside in winter often involves quiet walks in the woods along a stream. They are protected from the wind, which is necessary, but they also remind me of a large part of my boyhood entertainment, which is the more significant draw.”