Sam Vokey, born 1963, educated at Bowdoin College, and subsequently at the R.H. Ives Gammell Studio in Boston from 1989-1994. While at the Gammell Studio, Vokey worked privately with two of the senior Boston School artists, Robert Cormier and Robert Douglas Hunter. The classic atelier training he received during this period, with its emphasis on working directly from life and in natural light, is at the center of his painting style.
Vokey's oils, whether still lifes or landscapes, constantly explore highly sophisticated balances both of overall composition, and of light and dark values within the composition. As with the style of his Boston School predecessors who had admired and emulated simultaneously both French Salon painting and French Impressionism, Vokey's technique crosses Realism with some of the softer edges and painterly qualities of Impressionism. To his technical skill, Vokey adds a fine eye for subject matter in the
