Carl Tribble Jr.

Paintings

Carl Tribble, Jr. searches art for an image that satisfies him.  This means a lot of work, plenty of small painting studies and sustained patience as he works through visions that often disappoint him, yet on occasion satisfy him.  Carl was educated at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas; Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas; Cornell Graduate School, Ithica, New York; and finally he began his art education in the late 1980's at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.  While trained in printmaking and acrylics, his preferred artistic medium is watercolor and woodblock printing.

Carl thinks of art as a never ending search for knowledge and insight into the complexities of art.  This means you can never be perfectly satisfied because there is always more ahead, thus he sees art as traveling rather than a destination...ongoing travel that is filled with colors,  both bold and quiet, and shapes, both real and imaginary.

In the early 1990's Carl built a large studio on his wife's farm in Summit Point, West Virginia, and visitors are welcome.  His phone number is 304-725-4281

Carl was a child of the Depression years so he has traveled widely and lived in Arkansas,  Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, Texas, Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia.  This probably explains his eclectic taste of different cultures...he uses art from the Hopi and Suni Indians, from the Japanese, from Nature and from the alien world of abstract works.