Paul Hotvedt

Paul Hotvedt

Paul Hotvedt
Landscape Painter
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Over the course of 15 years Paul Hotvedt recorded the landscapes of northeastern Kansas in a series of oil paintings. Several hundred of his works are included in KUs Spencer Library Collection as part of the From the Ground Up project which has cataloged site-specific visual art in Kansas from a number of artists. From the Ground Up and it's founding group, the Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place, were co-founded by Hotvedt in 2001.
A typical Hotvedt painting celebrates the beauty of the commonplace. The paintings might contain nothing more than a flat horizon and a nondescript clump of scrubby brush yet they may become meditations on the everyday. Hotvedt takes notice of the landscapes that most of us drive by without taking a second glance. With seasoned confidence, he recreates these rather ordinary scenes into paintings that are imminently interesting.