Joshua Cunningham has been painting the landscape for over 20 years. He lives in St. Paul, with his wife Shannon, their children, Greta, William, and a sheepdog. He is a member of the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota, Oil Painters of America, and a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society. His paintings of the upper Midwest have won regional, national, and international awards. Joshua’s work is represented at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis, MN; Olson-Larsen Galleries in West Des Moines, IA; Bell Street Galleries in Bayfield and Madeline Island, WI; Patrician Galleries in Wilmette, IL.
Oil Painting is the way I seek to understand what interests me, stirs my faith, and awakens memories. I paint how I see because I feel representational painting offers a human expression of the world around us in a language we all hold in common. As an artist, my primary goal is do right by my subjects. If I have done right by them, the paintings have a chance to stir you as the scene has stirred me. The Driftless Area is a relic of an older world, as it was before the glaciers ground down and reshaped the landscape. It is a Midwestern time capsule. It is driftless, in every sense of the definition. In geological terms, it is devoid of soil and stone, pushed along by the glaciers. And in a poetical since, as I wander the area, my mind is set adrift along the rhythms of the land. These paintings are not unlike the fossils I find along creek beds. They are a record.