David Utiger
"While not a farmer, I have always been fascinated by the patterns of fields and woodland in a working agricultural region. As well as the contrasts of color, for instance the green fields and orange and yellow woods in the autumn. A quote by author Barry Lopez : 'A spiritual landscape exists within the physical landscape. Occasionally one sees something fleeting in the land, a moment when line, color and movement intensify and something sacred is revealed'... Mr Lopez says what I feel better than I ever
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Though not raised in the northeast,I spent a lot of time in Vermont in my childhood on the old family farmstead. In my youth my grandparents were here, and in 1985 I found myself owner and custodian of the property. I have lived here ever since. I hold a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis.