
GALLERY
THE GALLERIES
I have never been a casual painter. It’s never been enough to just draw or paint for the sake of drawing and painting. It doesn’t work for me. I’ve always had to have a plan, or work on a series of related images to feel like I accomplished something. I’m not particularly fast. A better adjective would be dogged. While I think I have learned and grown as an artist over my more than fifty years of practice, the fact is that my best work is scattered across the entire length of my career. The galleries on this website are a selection from these works. I have organized them first according to media, but I have made them searchable through a variety of terms. This is a document about what I have learned and about what I continue to learn. Thanks for joining in.
Oil Painting
Printmaking
Pastel

ALAN LARKIN
BIOGRAPHY
Alan Larkin received his BA in art from Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota in 1975 and his MFA in printmaking from the Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Though recently retired, he taught drawing and printmaking for almost forty years at Indiana University South Bend. He is the recipient of numerous prizes in regional, national, and international competitions for his artwork, including the prestigious Founder’s Award in the 2016 Pastel 100 Competition sponsored by the Pastel Journal and the Best of Show Award at the 75th and 91st Annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition in Indianapolis.


