Trinon Crouch, a native of the Southwest, is a
painter with over thirty years of art experience. He received his first
art
award in 1968 when one of his oil paintings was selected to show in the
World Hemisfair in San Antonio, Texas. Crouch has continued his search
for his own personal expression since that time.
Graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso
in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Crouch left El Paso for
Jackson, Wyoming, where he lived and worked for five years. The power
and awe of the Grand Teton mountains and the Snake River increased his
interest in painting landscapes. For five years he hiked, sketched and
painted In Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Returning to El Paso
in 1980 to assume a teaching position at El Paso Community College,
Crouch taught commercial illustration and art history, and worked as a
fashion illustrator. During this period he continued to paint the
desert, west Texas plains and the Gila wilderness of southern New
Mexico. While in Texas, Crouch had several one-man shows and his work
was enthusiastically collected as it still is today.
In 1983, attracted by the mountains and high
desert, he moved to Santa Fe to commit himself fully to a career as a
painter. Crouch lived in Santa Fe for twelve years before he met and
married his wife Sherie Hartle. They now have a son, Dylan.
Expressing the sensations of changing light, air,
and seasons are important features in his paintings. Many of his works
are done on location, capturing the atmospheric changes with the
immediacy of his brushstroke. He states, “I am a hunter of light and
weather conditions. I love paintings that express mood. Often a sense
of mood or atmosphere in a scene is created by a condition of weather
or changing light.”
Crouch is currently featured in the Art Exchange
Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jeff Tabor, the owner, states about his
work, “Trinon has a wonderful sense of color and mood in his
paintings.His full-palette color schemes are very appealing to most
everyone. He has received various awards and has sold work in galleries
across the country and we are proud to have his work. It is an added
bonus that he is a very nice guy as well as a successful professional
artist.”
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