Eric Forstmann

Eric Forstmann is a realist painter best known for richly detailed still lifes, landscapes, and images of everyday objects such as crumpled brown paper, carrier bags, or shirts hanging on wooden or plastic hangers. Working almost exclusively from life rather than photographs, his paintings, such as Blue Notes or Thanks for Nothing (both 2020) attempt to find beauty in ordinary, overlooked things, without imposing meaning upon them. Forstmann’s works invite the viewer to slow down, observe more closely, and form their own conclusions. The artist was born and lives in Connecticut, and draws repeatedly on the grandeur of the area’s rolling hills and vast open skies for his plein air landscape paintings including High Water (2018) and Waramaug Shore (2019).