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FINE ART PAINTING AND ART MATERIALS INSTRUCTION

Tdparts is a site where artists can find aid to their personal creative activity. It is an artist-run site headed by an artist who has been exhibiting his work since the mid-1970s. Terrance DePietro has been involved in painting, print-making, photography for most of his life. He has been instructing from his studios for, not less than, fifteen years. He holds an MFA in painting from SUNY Albany, has directed galleries, juried national and regional exhibits, exhibited internationally and has been involved in Product Development for several art materials companies.

Astist's Grotto a favorite haunt of the Hudson River School Artists

For more than thirty years he has maintained a studio in Palenville, NY. As did his predecessors, DePietro found that the area held a special essence that lent itself to creativity. Even before Thomas Cole viewed the majesty of the Kaaterskill Falls, which is but a foot-hike from Palenville, writers had been inspired by the surrounding wilderness. Since that time writers, poets, painters (never limited to landscape painters), composers, song writers and others have slept in the shadow of these mountains and found for themselves a special closeness to the more natural side of life's mystery.

Today the area adjacent to Palenville has been decreed 'forever wild' and still contains many of the early painter's motifs: Haines Falls, Kaaterskill Falls, Fawn's Leap, La Belle Falls, Artist Grotto, North & South Lakes and the vistas from the eastern escarpment of the Catskill Mountains and the Kaaterskill Clove. And as a painter of more modern concerns, DePietro is still influenced by the haunts of those artists who found, as Asher B. Durand, a 'Kindred Spirit' in this tiny and timeless place of nature.