Hey, it's Antries, and welcome to the Savvy Painter podcast. I am delighted to have Kurt

and Moyer as my guest today. Kurt is a landscape painter living in Rochester, New York. He pulls

inspiration from nature and from studying the master paintings that came before us.

As Kurt will tell you, some mysteries in painting don't need to be solved in order to have a full rich experience with them.

Kurt is content to let some of that be so that he can focus on light color and the thread that weaves through

his work and ties all the way back to artists like Suzanne, Coro, Balthus, George Sorrell, and many, many others. In this episode, Kurt and I talk about seeing,

about getting that authentic impression of color and light and not being a slave to your own eyes. We also talk about how new experiences or simply time can completely change the way you look at paintings that maybe you've seen many many times before.

So without further ado, here is Kurt Moyer.

Hey Kurt, thank you so much for being on the show with me today.

Well, thank you. It's a real honor. Thanks for asking me.

Would you talk a little bit about when you first decided to pursue painting as a professional thing rather than sort of a hobby?

Sure. It was in college. I met a painting professor, George Sorrells, which you name might sound

familiar, because John Whistler was also somebody who studied with him. And he really helped me discover that painting was going to be for me.

I had always, you know, I was one of those kids who drew all the time and I was recognized from early age to have some sort of a

talent and then, you know, once somebody starts feeding you like that, it tends to grow.

But it was when I met George and he really opened up that idea of what painting could be for me.

It was a whole kind of new world, no new path forward, and it was immediately obvious that I wanted to be a part of that.

Do you remember some of the things, you know, how you felt or some of the things that you responded to in

particular about you know kind of what he told you or what he showed you that

made you go like oh I got to do this? Well George was really interested in in in a painting

from life but particularly painting landscape and he was really generous with his time and took me

particularly out painting with him on a regular basis. By the time I graduated

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