Vicountess on the Edge of a Board

Artist: Greg Blount

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 36" x 60"

Artistic Approach
Translating experiences on a canvas with curiosity.
Inspired by artists from Hockney to Picasso to Degas, as well as contemporary artists. Blount
probes how to engage the viewer with subversive, incongruent images, themes, and
abstractions.
As an environmental lawyer, much of his early work was comprised of representational wildlife
and natural subjects. In recent years his art has been influenced by the color and perspective of
David Hockney in pools and landscapes. Movement and dance, based on associations with theAtlanta Ballet and Terminus Modern Ballet Theater, still influence his subject matter. His work incorporates political and social themes as well.

Education and Background
Gregory Blount is a native of Athens, Georgia and has been painting for about 30 years. In the
words of Winston Churchill, Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day.
Greg's interest in painting began as a creative counterpoint to his career as an environmental
lawyer. Building on his education in Southern literature and creative writing, his formal art
education includes instruction from the Woodruff Arts Center and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) while pursuing a Master of Fine Arts, among other programs.
Greg's works are held primarily by private collectors and have been auctioned at nonprofit
events benefitting The Atlanta Opera, The Atlanta Ballet, Weekend for Wildlife at Sea Island, the Georgia Conservancy's ecoBenefete, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, and the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. He is a member of the Artists Club of Washington, D.C. and a former member ofthe Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe. Greg continues to practice environmental law across the US for major US corporations and lives in Atlanta and Serenbe with his wife Jane.