Walt Curlee is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of October 2019. He is an award-winning artist based in Alabama, USA. Through his Appalachian farm landscape oil paintings, Walt creates an enchanting world of good times past.

Walt’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of October 2019. The gallery will promote Walt and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Walt’s Artist Statement below as he describes his history and inspiration in his words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Walt’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Walt’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Walt and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Artist Statement

I invite you to take a stroll into my Appalachian farm landscape paintings to a slower time, when life was simpler. A timeless world of rolling hills and patchwork farms; where you can almost smell the fresh cut hay and air and hear the sounds of nature around you. I strive to create an enchanting world in my folksy style with a nostalgic feel of good times past.

Born into a military family, I am the oldest of five boys. I started drawing at an early age. Due to my obsession with doodling, I had a tendency to neglect my school work. After 4 years in the Marine Corps, I acquired my art education at the Art Institute’s of Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta. I work from my home studio and enjoy living the country life in rural Alabama, with my wife Vicki.

I have been a freelance illustrator for 25 years and have worked for a Who’s Who of Corporate America including Berol Pencils, Blockbuster Videos, Cirrus Logic, Clark American, Coors, Diamond Shamrock, Duracell, Frito-Lay, Game Tek, H. E. B. Brand Grocery Co., Kellogg’s, Lucas Arts, Mattel, MCI, Procter & Gamble, Orkin, Sega Genesis, and Thermos/Warner Brothers.

My oil paintings have garnered numerous top awards in National Art Competitions around the country.

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