Artist Highlight: Doug Foltz

I'm so excited to share with you the work of Doug Foltz.  Foltz is a native of South Miami and now lives in Atlanta (we're certainly lucky)! His focus is on water and air and the relationship they play with each other.  Foltz paints in studios located in Atlanta and Blue Mountain Beach in Northwestern Florida.  The artist is represented in town by Huff Harrington Fine Art, but he painted several commission pieces for William Peace for our collaborative "Between the Sheets" series of display windows.  I've shared a few that I find particularly stunning and the works he created for the shop or located at the bottom of this post...

Doug created a series for William Peace of Peace Design's collaboration with Gramercy tilted, "As I Remember It."  When asked about his thoughts on this project, Foltz had the following to say:

Doug Foltz commissioned art, William Peace of Peace Design, Gramercy Display Window

I often paint as way of traveling.  While I paint, I'm there... were I've been, where I'd like to be again.

All of us spend time living with - and through - our memories... I think far more than may be first be apparent.  It's easy to identify the moments when it happens literally... when we think of, or speak of - or paint from - past experiences and feelings that have made an impression.  But it also happens in a much more subtle way… and far more continuously than I think we realize...

Doug Foltz commissioned art, William Peace of Peace Design, Gramercy Display Window

As I mature, continue my journey, become more of who I really am... I'm clearly gathering things around me that connect me to unrealized memories - images, textures, sounds, colors, tastes... even smells.  Sure, there are bound to be influences of the moment, but I think the selections we make - our decisions about what we want to gather - are much more connected to the associative qualities of the deeply subtle memories that we all keep.

The great gift though, is that we get to filter those memories. We get to make them what we want. After all - their ours!  And if we're smart, we choose the good things… the great times… the wonderful feelings. Subconsciously we make that memory what we want it to be. We wrap ourselves in the things that connect us with those memories in only the ways we choose to be connected.   It's personal... I make an unconscious choice to connect -  not so much with the memory as it truly was, - but more the way I want it to be... As I remember it.

Doug Foltz commissioned art, William Peace of Peace Design, Gramercy Display Window

To read more about the artist and see his work, please visit his website:  Doug Foltz