Specially Abled Artist Series-Keith Salmon

A well-known Scottish landscape painter, Keith Salmon creates ethereal, moody abstracts of skylines and mountains inspired by the rugged highlands in his country. Trained in fine arts and sculpture, Salmon has broadened his techniques over the years as his eyesight has diminished, learning how to smash paint into texture and scratch pastels for scribbles to evoke less a depiction of place and more an exquisite experience of the wild. He uses sound while in the landscape and records it, so he can reproduce the experience when he gets to his studio. He later partnered with Microsoft to create an acoustic and spatial interpretation of three drawings Salmon did of the beautifully remote Hells Canyon area in Oregon.