One-Of-A-Kind Oil Paintings by Cliff

I am Cliff Barnes, an enthusiastic American artist who loves to capture natural scenery with my oil and watercolor painting. Six months after my marriage with Betty, we decided to buy a VW Camper in Germany and camped in Europe for a year.

In Spain, I bought oil paints and canvases and began painting the people, fishing villages, and the Alps witnessing the amazing differences in each country. After I finished my art, we rolled those canvases and brought them back to the U.S., starting a new career as a full-time artist.

The skills that I learned in advertising as a graduate of Art Center College of Design have set my path forward selling my art in galleries and art competitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah. I was even advertised in a Switzerland Newspaper.

I have always been amazed by our American West. My wife and I traveled to Indian reservations and ceremonials, rodeos, and ghost towns with this passion. For over 20 years, I focused on painting the American people, scenes, and wildlife of our West of Today.

I was elected President of the American and Indian Cowboy Artists and had a one-person show at the San Bernardino County Museum. I was commissioned to paint two 10-foot by 8-foot oil paintings for the County of San Bernardino, which hang today in the rotunda of their County Government Building.