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Peck uses brilliant, saturated colors over darker backgrounds with the judicious application of black varnish to create interesting intensity in many of his scenes. For example, his technical skill with simple forms and strong colors to express dignity is evident in his portrait of President Lincoln, but his title of the artwork, “Abe,” implies that Peck sees a man he might also call friend. He is inspired by Impressionist artists such as John Singer Sargent and admires Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, whom he memorialized his in his portrait of the “Three Impressionists.” Peck goes even deeper into his artwork by implying emotional connections beyond the image itself. The self-taught Peck explained that during his advancement of his sketching skills from a childhood hobby to mastery, his sketching became the structural essence of his art, a balance he described that exists between hyperrealism and impressionism. Public acceptance of his body of work - land, city and seascapes, human and animal portraits, still life scenes and some quirky takes on traditional themes - validated his self-confidence in his skills as an artist. Although he said that he was initially “terrified by walking into a gallery,” Peck overcame his fear and applied as an artist in a local gallery. Oil painter Peck always felt a passion for self-expression. That is more than satisfying it is a thrilling and fulfilling dream come true, a legacy that will certainly outlive me and I find that quite appealing.” Expressive paintings “I got this cool idea,” the Inkist declared, “of a stranger connecting with, collecting and displaying my artwork. Neiberger said although joining a gallery near his home in Sutter Creek was initially just for his own pleasure, his drawings were greeted with such astonishing response, it became something far beyond his expectations. With his pen and ink, he sometimes highlights what he sees with a flash of color, as with the gold and orange he applied to the leaves on a tree standing by the old church in “A Slice of Sutter Creek.” In his “Shadows of the Fallon Hotel,” he uses the color of reddish bricks to bring greater interest to the scene. It is his home in Sutter Creek, in the Sierra foothills, that Neiberger mines the rich treasure he finds in the landscapes and scenes of this historical Gold Rush town. With each precise touch of ink to paper, he invites the viewer to see more than just a broken old tree. He based his drawing “Back Roads” on a friend’s photo, the scene featuring a leafless old tree on a country road. While most of his drawings spring from his own photos, he sometimes finds inspiration from a photograph taken by someone else. “While taking the photo, I felt immense satisfaction with the way I envisioned it in my head for my drawing.” “’The Sentinel’ is my depiction of a majestic tree along a dirt path leading to the Penrhyn Castle in Wales,” Neiberger explained. He describes the process in his interpretation of a famous tree he discovered while traveling in the United Kingdom.

Along the way, he snapped photographs of scenes that piqued his interest - the gnarled pattern on a tree trunk, a leaning fence, the complex wrinkles on an old man’s face, thereby creating a library of images from which he draws his inspiration. Through the years he took advantage of opportunities to travel, turning his travel adventures into photo safaris.

Unable to afford the necessary supplies for etchings, however, he used materials at hand to replicate the technique, subsequently discovering that pen and ink approximated the “look and feel” of etching. He explained that, although etchings are smaller in size, he found the amount of detail in these images to be remarkable. The self-taught Neiberger started drawing as a young man and became intrigued with etchings.

He left his identity as a jurist to become the “Inkist,” a pseudonym he feels reflects his love for creating original pen and ink, and sometimes watercolor illustrations. Neiberger turned his boyhood dream of becoming a lawyer into reality, but after retiring from 37 years of litigation practice, he decided to more fully pursue another lifelong dream - that of creating art. Gold Country Artists Gallery, an award-winning gallery in Placerville, presents artwork by its newest artists - Inkist Kirk Neiberger, oil painter John Peck and photographer Terrie Gray.