Dan Godfrey – Artist Statement
Dan Godfrey has been painting as a professional artist since the mid 1960's after graduating with an MA in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1962. Dan's work runs the entire gamut of media and includes watercolor, pastel, oil pastel, pen and ink, oils, acrylics and mixed media and even sculpture in metal and stone. His work includes as subject matter landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lives and wildlife. Dan has won top awards, the most recent being first place in a statewide competition at the Bardean Miniature yearly exhibit in 1996. The judge for this particular competition was Wilson Hurley. In 1997, Dan won second place in this miniature competition. He has written and illustrated several bi-lingual children's books. The most recent book of his was published by the University of New Mexico in 1984 entitled Wildflowers Along Forest and Mesa Trails. Dan's most recent paintings are in oil pastel, the subject matter being the Rio Grande River.

Dan had a one-man show during the month of October 2004 at the New Mexico Art League on Juan Tabo NE in Albuquerque. The title of the show was "Seasons of the River" and included paintings and prints of the four seasons of the Rio Grande.

Dan's works are in private collections in all parts of the world and he ahs had exhibits at the University of New Mexico, the Kimo Gallery, the Albuquerque Public Library and galleries in Scottsdale and Tucson Arizona, Fairleigh-Dickenson University in Madison, New Jersey, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada and various other galleries in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos and Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Dan is currently a faculty member at the New Mexico Art League and will be scheduling some classes in landscape painting there following his second one-man exhibit coming this October 2005, and the theme of "Seasons of the River" will be continued in this exhibit. This exhibit will include Giclee prints which come as close to the original painting as is currently possible.

Dan Godfrey
Great River Heritage
9501 Snowheights NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122
(505) 323-5619