Jake Gaedtke

Longmont, Colorado

"My calling as an artist is to share my vision and experience of the natural world and its many marvels through plein air painting", says Jake Gaedtke. "My goal is to couple my knowledge of art history and the learned disciplines of skilled technique with all the emotion I feel in the moment when I am painting - to capture that moment of intense awareness for the viewer to experience". This is accomplished in the form of painted and/or sketched field studies as my main source of reference which I then use to create larger studio paintings.

Jake is a founding member and signature member of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Association and his work is in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe.