Land O' Sky Trout Unlimited
Chapter 033
ORIGINAL
FLY FISHING OIL PAINTINGS
You can now commission an original oil painting scene of your favorite trout stream in WNC from one of our own TU LOS members. Jim Hefley specializes in paintings of our beautiful mountain streams, many featuring a fly fisherman casting a fly or netting a trout.
--Several of Jim's fly fishing landscapes have been offered through several of our
premier fly fishing shops in WNC.
--Others have been donated and sold at charity auctions for cold water
conservation.
--Several
others are now available in two fine art galleries in WNC
His artist biography is also included in this
section of the LOS website.
only from art galleries which handle his work. When you commission an oil
painting from Jim, he will work with
you to choose a scene that captures one of your wonderful trout
fishing memories and also makes a good artistic composition.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Jim generously donates most of the sale proceeds of commissioned oil paintings to TU Rivercourse Fund, primarily to support tuition grants, or "camperships", for boys and girls to attend our annual fly fishing and coldwater conservation camp (see the Rivercourse links on the LOS website).
NEW
FRAMED GICLEE PRINTS-DAVIDSON RIVER
For 2010, Jim is offering a fly
fishing giclee framed print on canvas, titled "Davidson
River Trout Run". This very high
quality print is now on sale at Curtis-Wright
Outfitters
in Biltmore
Village (Asheville),
Brookings
Outfitters in
Cashiers, and Jesse
Brown's Outfitters
in Charlotte. The price of the framed print
is $150 and each fly shop has joined with Jim in donating 100% of
any sale proceeds to NCTU Rivercourse.
range in price from $300 to $ 1,000 depending on the size of the painting
and the complexity
of the scene.
Biography of Jim Hefley
For
many years Jim has been an active outdoors-
man.
When he relocated to
his
love of the many beautiful streams of our area, where
he
fly fishes for trout and bass, with a passion for oil
painting.
Many of his paintings feature a beautiful
mountain
trout stream with a fly fisherman actively
pursuing
(and sometimes catching) a nice trout. He
currently
has two series of these type of oils. The
Blue
Ridge Fly Fishing Series
features
streams
primarily within our National Forests or NC
State
Forests. The Smoky Mountains Fly Fishing
Series
features streams within the Great Smoky
showcasing
our beautiful mountain vistas as well as
some
of our spectacular waterfalls.
Jim
lived and worked in
During
that time he developed a real appreciation for
the
countryside fields and houses in those countries.
Because
of that interest, he has created a number of
landscapes
of scenes in
including
some very colorful scenes of barges on
canals
in
In
terms of style, Jim generally paints in a contemporary
realism
style, but also likes to create some paintings
in
a more impressionistic style if the scene and the light
encourage
that approach.
Jim
has studied with and taken oil painting workshops
from
prominent
Peggy Taylor and Julyan Davis.
In
addition to painting Jim is an active member of
Trout
Unlimited, and devotes volunteer time to helping
stock
trout in the WNC streams and participates in TU
efforts
to clean up the streams.
