About Ed Hicks

Artist Ed Hicks focuses on the landscape's color and its variations with light.  He searches New England for that special place, a scene that strikes him for a single element that becomes the central point of the painting.

He is noted for achieving color and texture with oil paints that is unique to the medium.  With a background in transparent watercolors, his approach to oil achieves a similar tone-lighter and more colorful than many traditional oil paintings.

Hicks feels that what is left out is as important as what is put in the painting.  He sees something he likes and paints his impression of the scene, focusing on what first captures his attention.  "I paint open-ended landscapes.  I give a painting just enough information to evoke a sense of place, but allow the viewer to fill in specifics. But, for me, the greatest measure of my success is the positive responses to my work.

"When someone is stopped by a painting, I want them not only to see the picture, but to feel the spirit of the place." – Ed Hicks

His studies gave Hicks a solid academic foundation, and Wyeth and the early Impressionists strongly influence his work.  This, together with twenty years as a graphic artist, have helped form the painter he is today.  Hicks' work is collected in private homes and in corporations around the world.  He has received numerous awards and has had several one-man shows.