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Stapleton Kearns
"I was born in 1952 in Rochester, Minnesota. Even as a child art came naturally to me. I loved the paintings in my mother's antiques magazines.
In school, all day long, I drew behind my books, creating thousands of drawings and earning dreadful grades. Some years later after several years of art school, where the approach was typically more modern than I desired, I moved to Boston and was taught at the Fenway studios by R.H. Ives Gammell. Ives Gammell was an elderly painter who had studied with the famous American impressionist William Paxton. Ives taught in the classical manner of the nineteenth century. We drew plaster casts in charcoal for months before moving on to study the figure. He stood next to us and corrected our drawings, teaching us to 'SEE.'Some time has past since then, now I'm nearly thirty two feet tall and weigh over 1900 pounds. I tell people if I'm awake,then I'm painting."
—Stapleton Kearns
Stapleton Kearns is an elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists. For five years he served as president of the Rockport Art Association. Twice his paintings have been included in the Biannual Show at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He is a member of the New England Plein Aire Painters.
Stapleton's paintings are dynamic and imbued with rich, poetic, emotion. In their dramatic beauty we see a reflection of his training, his character and the depth of his artistic creativity.A master craftsman, Stapleton Kearns is a firmly established contemporary American Artist. He is a lavish and eccentric individual with high standards of professional integrity who will not skimp on time or detail in his work. "If it isn't an A then it is not art." Having been a part of R H Ives Gammell's atelier in Boston in the 1970's, his home is in New England.
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