South Carolina Artist Fred Galloway

Hello and welcome to my website! My family and I have made our home in Greenwood, SC now for fifteen years. It was the textile design industry that brought us here from Greenville, SC. In the current migration of the textile industry overseas, few jobs remain domestically. I am fortunate that Lander University and Erskine College have given me the opportunity to teach. Currently, I am teaching basic graphic design and digital photography and am scheduled to teach drawing and painting in the spring '10 semester. I love teaching and the interaction I receive from the students. It is indeed challenging switching from a high paced production based enviornment to education with all the preparation needed for classroom lectures.

Although I continue to paint, I have grown in recent years in the area of digital photograhy. Photoshop was one of the programs that we used in textile design so I was familiar with it before I got involved in digital photography. With my transition from being exclusively an open-air painter to also working in the studio, I found myself needing to take photographs. I also started using Photoshop to create compositional studies. My interest in photography grew, and I bought a good digital camera and a few lenses. I have started working professionally and have begun compiling a portfolio of my own photographs.

The transition to studio painting has brought a new discipline to painting: patience. Open-air painting has always been for me working quickly and using thick brush strokes. The result has usually been brightly colored canvasses with brush strokes that closely resembles the Impressionist style of painting. My new studio work has more of the qualities of realism with smoother strokes. Trying to keep the colors bright and airy has been the hardest part of the transition. Many times during the course of a painting I will take the painting outdoors to help view the colors in natural light all in the effort to help the colors relate and to not become localized. My open air paintings are painted using oils on either gessoed paper or canvas. After selecting a scene to paint, I work within a particular time, returning day after day until the painting is finished. As can be seen by looking at my paintings, I like natural light reflecting the time of day.

After deciding to become a painter I enrolled at East Carolina University and earned both a BFA and an MA in Painting. Between degrees I lived in New York City studying the art of the Impressionist in the various museums. A few years ago I began painting wildlife scenes in my studio.

I am now producing a line of Limited Edition Giclee Prints and Canvasses. After a thorough investigation of Giclee Printing I became convinced of its quality. The color can be closely matched to the original and the detail is amazing. A Giclee Print is simply the closest duplication of an original artwork that is humanly, mechanically, or technically possible. The printers are specifically designed for the rigorous and precise criteria of fine art quality, limited edition prints and use inks that have a 100 year light-fastness and UV-resistance under museum archival conditions. The paper I use is a high quality watercolor paper. I print, hand-cut, sign, number and package each print in my studio. A "Record of Authenticity" is also completed and shipped with each print.

If you have any questions, please email, fred@fredgalloway.com