I believe that learning to paint is learning to see…
-David McCosh

David McCosh pursued painting as a continual process of discovery, each work becoming, in effect, an experiment in observation. From a lifetime of effort, McCosh’s work stands as a record of this search inviting the eye to participate with him in his personal dialogue with seeing and painting. His concerns in art were not with fads or trends. His focus lay, instead, on evolving a style based on constantly expanding his ability to perceive the complexities of his environment, a challenge that often led him to subjects seldom attempted by other painters.
	David McCosh, Eugene, Oregon
Motivated by finding the unexpected, McCosh responded by emancipating his use of color, and by inventing endless types of shorthand marks and tones in his search for formal solutions capable of conveying these unpredictable aspects in nature that never ceased to compel his curiosity and his art.

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