SoCal plein-air painter Richard J. Oliver knows the more the artist can say with a single brush stroke, the more rewarding. He channels the savvy artist’s maxim: “less is more.”
It’s the polar opposite of how he once painted—in the studio he’s maintained for the past 30 years. “I often explain it metaphorically as a process of making paintings like Haiku poems rather than lengthy, descriptive essays,” Oliver told The Epoch Times. Based in Los Angeles, he joined the 19th-century tradition of plein-air (French for painting ”out of doors”) for a change of pace after pursuing the old masters for two decades.
