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James Biggers is humbled and honored to be selected as the 2022 Legacy Artist for the Colorado Governor’s Show.
Looking at the world with a different eye, James Biggers looks for more than merely seeing the natural beauty of a scene. He tries to find the emotions that are tied up within a subject and portray those in his paintings. It is through the heart of the painting that he makes the emotional connection with the viewer that he feels is essential in great art.
While James graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from Central State University in Oklahoma, he credits most of his formal art training from individuals with whom he has studied such as Richard Schmid. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Alaska, Europe, Central America, and Mexico. Travel not only introduces new subjects, but allows one to look at old subjects in a new way. Painting from life is always exciting, always new, seeing something different each time. He has participated in juried exhibitions from Connecticut to California, and has been featured in American Artist, Revue Magazine and Southwest Art. He has been published in two Landscape books; Art of the National Parks by Suzan Hallsten McGarry and Landscapes of Colorado by Ann Scarlet Daley. Today he lives and paints in Estes Park, Colorado. “As a landscape painter it has always been important to me to live in an inspiring environment. When I am able to look out each morning and view the wonders and spirit of the landscape, it inspires my paintings. This inspiration is further highlighted when painting on location .”
While in the process of developing his technical painting skills, Biggers discovered something else essential to art, and impossible to teach. He calls it the “heart of the painting”. “At some point, you have to put something of yourself into your painting, and until you do that, you will never have a great painting.” It is the “heart of the painting” that James strives to portray. He uses the skills he has developed over the years to bring this essence to life. While he realizes the importance of proper form, he also firmly believes the great techniques do not always make a great painting. “Technique is what gets people to walk up to your painting; HEART is what keeps them there.”
