The thing about Gene Speck’s art is that, although it’s been dubbed realism, it goes beyond photorealism; it becomes your reality. Once you see one of his paintings, you aren’t just looking at a picture; you’re in another time and space. Speck’s heart and aesthetic nature is inured in a simpler time, when fewer people roamed the earth and had the space to do so. As a result, his paintings reach out and touch the viewer with palpable beauty and reality that in our hurried and fragmented lives seem to be long lost.

Speck’s ability to immerse himself in his paintings helps him to generate artwork with soul. Smoke from a campfire seems to waver, as birds wheel above Indians clustered around it. As the painting draws you in, you swear you can hear wings flapping.

Gene Speck

Trap Line Cabin
Oil
14″x11″

“The trapper is home for the night, after checking his trap lines on horseback.”

Gene Speck

Nevada Winter
Oil
12″x16″

“Coming back, after a cold ride from town, to a warm barn and house.”