About the Artist

Growing up in southern California I could not get enough of the mountains, ocean, and desert—places of wonder for me.  During the years of my training in painting and printmaking in the 1960’s, I was attracted by the abstraction in art that was popular at the time.  In the years that followed my schooling, I worked to wed some of what I had learned of art-making with the optical delight I have always taken in the world around me.  After moving to Tennessee early in the 1970’s I grew to love the nearby forested Appalachian Mountains which increasingly became my favored subject for my art.   

My oil painting process involves both the use of brushes to build up the surface with color, and the use of rags to rub off small, fingerprint-size areas to expose the more intense color of my patchwork underpainting.  This adding and subtracting method enables me to suggest something of the complexity, mystery, and richness of the natural subjects which I am drawn to paint.  I like to think of the source of the materials used as from the earth, and the painting process as one of transforming those materials into images of that earth.  I would wish that the dominant impression left on the viewer would be the beauty and wonder of the creation.                                        

                                         ~Edward Kellogg

Born in Pennsylvania on May 3, 1944, Edward Kellogg developed his early artistic interests studying in the children’s program at the Philadelphia Art Institute before moving to San Diego, California.  In college he studied painting for three years at Wheaton College in Illinois, after which he transferred to San Diego State University, receiving a BA in art in 1966 and an MA in painting and printmaking in 1968.  After a year of public school teaching and two years in the U.S. Army, he worked and studied under Dutch artist Henk Krijger at Patmos Workshop and Gallery in Toronto, Canada.  From 1973 to 2010, Kellogg taught at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, Georgia.  He is currently Emeritus Professor of Art at Covenant College and actively works in his Chattanooga, Tennessee, studio.