Painting professionally since 1977, George Van Hook studies in France and Italy in 1978 and 1979. Returning to America, he spent twelve years in California before coming back to his roots in the East to teach at the University of Maine. He now lives in upstate New York. The subject matter for George Van Hook’s impressionistic oils on canvas range from landscapes, still lifes and figurative. He portrays the beauty that surrounds him with a sense of sensitivity of knowing how fragile and fleeting beauty is. He captures it and freezes it in time.
Mr. Van Hook is currently shown in many galleries and has a dozen or more shows annually. He is the only artist to have been featured on the cover of American Artist twice and has been the subject of many articles in publications which feature the highest level of Plein Air painters. George Van Hook is a Plein Air painter of the Hudson School and acknowledged master of his craft.
George Van Hook