Even though Randall Case is not an new artist, he will tell you he feels like one. The reason? Only recently has he realized his lifelong dream to paint full time. Case’s decision to trade in his coat and tie for a paint  dappled sweatshirt happens to coincide quite nicely with his steadily developing popularity among collectors across the country.

Exploiting this new found time, Case is quickly adding to his already impressive body of  large-scale oil works. Although capacious landscapes have long commanded his primary devotion, he has lately expanded his interests to include bravely colorful florals and an in progress series of striking situational studies.

Inventive by nature, Case has long been intrigued with creating, either by the imaginative use of color, contrast or scale, drama in subjects that otherwise might be regarded as rather ordinary.

Case delivers his perspectives in and increasingly unique style which is the result of his relying more and more on his artist instincts.  I used to fret too much about content. Once I made those laborious layout decisions, I would worry much too little about what colors to use to fill the premeditated spaces. These days I consider little else but color and its interaction; form and content are all but left to lookout for themselves notes Case.

Perhaps it’s this preoccupation with color which explains the exceptional ( and regular) diversity of Case’s palette. From his detonation of color within florals to the muted tonal quality of his  quiet pieces, Case seems to relish the challenge of using color to create specific moods across a wide spectrum.  I’m always a little defensive when people comment about the concededly sizable variances between my loudest and quietest pieces. When it happens, I point out that the colors are dictated solely by conditions of light. In the sun they are bright. In the shade they are not. Since Nature uses a broad palette, so must I, explains the artist.

Case will tell you he takes his art very seriously.  I worked awfully hard to get to where I am now. For maybe the first time ever, I feel that I’m seeing the world as it really exists. This clarity, this new personal reality, is what I try to capture in my work. Most would say I’m anything but a realist painter. However, I believe I am.  Not because I paint the realism everyone else see. My art, in essence, loans my eyes. Each work is a single snapshot from my life filtered through my own sense of preferred reality.

Randall Case currently resides in Texas with his wife and two daughters. Besides art and family, his passions are golf , travel and books.