| Flitner |
| Read about Flitner in Sky West Magazine January/February 2006 |
| "Brilliant End of the Day " 14" x 11" (unframed) - $425 14" x 11" (framed) $525 Giclee on Canvas Location: Tubac Gallery |
Flitner has been making his living as an oil painter for over 20 years. His love for the arts has translated
into a very satisfying lifetime career. He thrives on the challenge of bringing color, intensity and shape
together in paintings to convey his vision to others. Whether he is painting on location in the desert or in his
studio, Flitner is at home with his paintbrush and considers himself on a lifetime journey of art exploration.
An inclination for figurative Western art – horsemen, Native Americans – jump-started his career. But the
landscape pulled at his senses. “The land evokes a simpler, quieter life. I have a great appreciation for the
vastness of this country, and painting the clouds is very liberating. Clouds leave more to the imagination.
They can be developed more freely.”
Capturing the image on film is just the beginning of Flitner’s art. “The photograph to me is a tool, a memory
device. The human has two eyes; we focus differently; we don’t see peripherally. A camera records all the
details. People only focus on one thing at a time. I know a person can paint photographically, but if you do
that, then to me you’re not painting how you see, not painting the spirit of the moment. It’s the artist’s job to
internalize the information the photograph doesn’t record. The camera is a cold, unfeeling instrument. If
you quit short and just copy photographs, you miss the thing that all artists should be pursuing – that sense
of how we feel about what we’re looking at.”
Filtner obtained a degree at the University of Arizona and continued his formal training at the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena. One of his Grand Canyon paintings was reproduced in the Arizona
Highways magazine and later displayed in the special exhibition of “A Backward Glace at Arizona Highways
Illustrators” at the Pippen Museum of Western Art (April 2000). Though primarily an oil painter, Filtner has
created several bronze works, one of which was reproduced in the Southwest Art Magazine calendar. He
was commissioned to create a special edition Wildcat bronze for the University of Arizona and was the
featured artist in the University of Arizona Alumni Art Show in 2002. His work has been displayed in Phoenix
city government and corporate buildings nationally. His work is found in private collections nationally and
internationally, including those of Burt Reynolds and Ann Miller.
Filtner was one of the featured artists in the 2004 American Diabetes Association’s Celebrity Art Auction
Gala, artistically collaborating with Jonathan Elias, News Anchor of ABC-KNXV TV in Phoenix, Arizona. In
April of 2005, Filtner was an honoree at the Best of Scottsdale Art Show and Gala in Scottsdale, Arizona for
his landscapes.
into a very satisfying lifetime career. He thrives on the challenge of bringing color, intensity and shape
together in paintings to convey his vision to others. Whether he is painting on location in the desert or in his
studio, Flitner is at home with his paintbrush and considers himself on a lifetime journey of art exploration.
An inclination for figurative Western art – horsemen, Native Americans – jump-started his career. But the
landscape pulled at his senses. “The land evokes a simpler, quieter life. I have a great appreciation for the
vastness of this country, and painting the clouds is very liberating. Clouds leave more to the imagination.
They can be developed more freely.”
Capturing the image on film is just the beginning of Flitner’s art. “The photograph to me is a tool, a memory
device. The human has two eyes; we focus differently; we don’t see peripherally. A camera records all the
details. People only focus on one thing at a time. I know a person can paint photographically, but if you do
that, then to me you’re not painting how you see, not painting the spirit of the moment. It’s the artist’s job to
internalize the information the photograph doesn’t record. The camera is a cold, unfeeling instrument. If
you quit short and just copy photographs, you miss the thing that all artists should be pursuing – that sense
of how we feel about what we’re looking at.”
Filtner obtained a degree at the University of Arizona and continued his formal training at the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena. One of his Grand Canyon paintings was reproduced in the Arizona
Highways magazine and later displayed in the special exhibition of “A Backward Glace at Arizona Highways
Illustrators” at the Pippen Museum of Western Art (April 2000). Though primarily an oil painter, Filtner has
created several bronze works, one of which was reproduced in the Southwest Art Magazine calendar. He
was commissioned to create a special edition Wildcat bronze for the University of Arizona and was the
featured artist in the University of Arizona Alumni Art Show in 2002. His work has been displayed in Phoenix
city government and corporate buildings nationally. His work is found in private collections nationally and
internationally, including those of Burt Reynolds and Ann Miller.
Filtner was one of the featured artists in the 2004 American Diabetes Association’s Celebrity Art Auction
Gala, artistically collaborating with Jonathan Elias, News Anchor of ABC-KNXV TV in Phoenix, Arizona. In
April of 2005, Filtner was an honoree at the Best of Scottsdale Art Show and Gala in Scottsdale, Arizona for
his landscapes.
| "Mission at Tumacacori" 22" x 37" (unframed) 15" X 30" (framed) Oil on Canvas Location: Tubac Gallery $3,500 |
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| "It's Not Easy Being Green" 16" x12" (unframed) 22" x 18" (framed) Oil on Canvas Location: Tubac Gallery |
| "Journey of the Sun" 14" x 18" (unframed) 24" x 28" (framed) Oil on Canvas Location: Tubac Gallery $2,000 |
| "Kaliedoscope Sunset" 10" x 20" (unframed) 29" x 25" (framed) Oil on Canvas Location: Tubac Gallery $1,500 |
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