Chase Bailey

About Artist:

US artist painter and photographer Woodward Payne was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1935. Woodward Payne paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, and are included in distinguished private and public collections. His studio is located in their home on Mt.Tamalpais above Mill Valley, just North of San Francisco. Following completion of undergraduate school at Arizona State University and graduate school at Indiana University Woodward Payne spent four years in Germany and travelled extensively throughout Europe. Woodward Payne paintings of this period were primarily landscapes and cityscapes and one-man exhibitions were arranged in Munich and Berlin. In 1966, Woodward Payne returned to Arizona where taught at Mesa Community College and Arizona State University. His work as an artist began to be influenced and, to a significant degree, shaped by his experiences as an aviator (he learned to fly when he was 13) as well as his love of travel. During the past fifty years Woodward Payne has taken thousands of slides and digital photographs and many have been idea sources for his paintings. His subject matter includes aerial landscapes, landscapes, dynamic florals, seascapes and abstracts. Woodward Payne was awarded, in April 1986, of First Prize in Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Earth Views competition in Washington D.C. from over 2000 paintings entered. Woodward Payne's aerial painting "Morning Mist" is include in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.