Greg Finnegan
During the Red Wing Area Studio Tour, stop by the Red Wing Arts Depot Gallery (418 Levee Street) to watch Greg Finnegan create plein air paintings in real time, and shop his recent paintings.
I live in southeastern Minnesota, and have a degree in geophysics and worked in oil exploration in the 1980s. Then moved into computer programming. I was doing software tech support for international customers before retiring at the beginning of 2019. I'm married and have 3 grown children.
I did some acrylic painting in college. I used to watch Bill Alexander, who taught Bob Ross, painting show on PBS in the 1980s. I always thought that someday I would take up oil painting, but work and family kept me busy. Through community ed, I took a still life painting class, and a plein air class.
I would take six weeks to complete a painting, but the plein air class taught me to get the important details down and paint quickly. A few years ago I joined the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota (OPM) and went along on their painting trip to the Badlands and Black Hills in South Dakota. Since I retired, I've had time to do a lot more painting.
