ANDY JANSONS

From the artist’s website: 

Andrew Jansons was an American Painter born in Riga, Latvia in 1942. Forced to flee Soviet Occupation, Jansons lived in a refugee camp in Allied Germany before immigrating to Brooklyn, New York where he spent his childhood. He studied physics and engineering at Lehigh University and received his M.F.A. in Painting from Columbia University where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Jansons lived and had his studio in SOHO, New York during the art boom of the 1970s and 1980s. His work was influenced by the natural world and from time spent at the small farm he and his family have in Cochecton, NY. A master colorist, paintings like Cochecton Divers (private collection) are emblematic of the vibrant Post-Abstract Expressionism that is characteristic of Jansons' powerful later work.

Website: https://www.andrewjansons.com/