Oils

The fine art of David W. Mayer captures the beauty and color of Colorado and West, from the high plains to
the Rocky Mountains and from the Pacific Coast to the desert Southwest.
David's paintings let you experience first-hand the warm light of a prairie morning, the soft, cool colors
of blue-shadowed snow, and the brilliant gold of a high country late Autumn day.

David W. Mayer is a member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA), as well as the American Impressionist Society (AIS), the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters (RMPAP), and the Colorado Plein Air Painters (CPAP) and is an avid “plein air” painter with an emphasis on portraying the beauty of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West as well as the Southwest, California and the West Coast.
He has studied with Scott Christensen, T. Allen Lawson, Kevin MacPherson, Ted Goerschner, and David Leffel as well as through the writings and works of Richard Schmid, Edgar Payne, Joaquin Sorolla and the California Impressionists. While he was an award winning watercolorist who studied with Tony Couch, David has concentrated exclusively on Oil painting for the past ten years. David was also an Art Director and Creative Director in print, web, interactive media and marketing communications prior to painting full time as a professional landscape artist.

2010 Shows, Awards and Recognition

David W. Mayer Has Sold Out Showing at the New "The Russell" Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum and the Original C.M. Russell Art Auction Sponsored by the Great Falls Ad Club.

 

David's oil paintings are held in prestigious private collections in Jackson, Wyoming; Aspen, Colorado; Hilton Head, South Carolina; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania as well as Alaska, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere throughout the United States and Europe. His work is also in the permanent corporate collections of the Pueblo Bank and Trust in Colorado and the SAS Institute in North Carolina. He has donated paintings for selected charity fundraisers, including charities that provide medical support for the children of Tibet and Project Angel Heart in Denver.

 

David W. Mayer's painting "First Light at Cottonwood Pass" (above) received an
"Award of Excellence" from awards judge Quang Ho at the 16th Annual National Exhibition
of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) held at
Whistle Pik Galleries in Fredericksburg, Texas held during May, 2007.

See the feature article on David's plein air and studio landscape oil paintings
in the June, 2009 issue of Southwest Art magazine