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				   "<br/>\
Every good painter paints what he is..<br/>\
<br/>\
-Jackson Pollock",
				   new Array(
				         new Array ("Chasm, oil on panel, 30 X 36, 2010, Available.",
				            "Chasm, oil on panel, 30 X 36, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Unending, oil on canvas, 60 X 48, 2010, SOLD.",
				            "Unending, oil on canvas, 60 X 48, 2010, SOLD.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Visiting, oil on panel, 24 X 34, 2010, Available.",
				            "Visiting, oil on panel, 24 X 34, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Seed, oil and acrylic on panel, 24 x 24, 2010, SOLD.",
				            "Seed, oil and acrylic on panel, 24 x 24, 2010, SOLD.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Quake, oil and acrylic on panel, 24 x 24, 2010, Available.",
				            "Quake, oil and acrylic on panel, 24 x 24, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Mixture, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010, Available.",
				            "Mixture, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Xenolith, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010, Available.",
				            "Xenolith, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Concord, oil on panel, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.",
				            "Concord, oil on panel, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Periphery, oil on panel, 20 X 12, 2010, Available.",
				            "Periphery, oil on panel, 20 X 12, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Springwater, oil on panel, 24 X 16, 2010, Available.",
				            "Springwater, oil on panel, 24 X 16, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Fold, oil on canvas, 48 X 48, 2010, Available.",
				            "Fold, oil on canvas, 48 X 48, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Vanishing, oil on panel, 12 X 18, 2010, Available.",
				            "Vanishing, oil on panel, 12 X 18, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Inclusion, oil on panel, 24 X 12, 2010, Available.",
				            "Inclusion, oil on panel, 24 X 12, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Lamina, oil on panel, 12 X 20, 2010, Avaialble.",
				            "Lamina, oil on panel, 12 X 20, 2010, Avaialble.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Silent, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 X 36, 2010 Available.",
				            "Silent, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 X 36, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Below Is High, oil on panel, 15.5 X 15.5, 2010 Available.",
				            "Below Is High, oil on panel, 15.5 X 15.5, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Traverse, oil on panel, 15.5 X 15.5, 2010 Available.",
				            "Traverse, oil on panel, 15.5 X 15.5, 2010. Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Eminence, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010, SOLD.",
				            "Eminence, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010, SOLD.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Arete, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010.",
				            "Arete, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Verglass, oil on panel, 16 X 16, 2010 Available.",
				            "Verglass, oil on panel, 16 X 16, 2010 Available.jpg"),
						 new Array ("Boreal, oil on panel, 12.5 X 12.5, 2010 Available.",
				            "Boreal, oil on panel, 12.5 X 12.5, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Atop Escalante, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010, Available.",
				            "Atop Escalante, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Secluded, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010 Available.",
				            "Secluded, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Rising Ground, oil on panel, 15 X 12, 2010 Available.",
				            "Rising Ground, oil on panel, 15 X 12, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Through It, oil on panel, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.",
				            "Through It, oil on panel, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Steppe, oil on panel, 10 X 10, 2010 Available.",
				            "Steppe, oil on panel, 10 X 10, 2010 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array ("Serac, oil on canvas, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.",
				            "Serac, oil on canvas, 14.5 X 14.5, 2010, Available.jpg")  
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				   "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.<br/>\
<br/>\
-John Muir",
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							"Through The Sky, oil-acrylic on canvas, 56 X 84, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array("Chance Meeting, oil on canvas, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Chance Meeting, oil on canvas, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array("Wasatch, oil on canvas, 20 X 20, 2009 Available.",
							"Wasatch, oil on canvas, 20 X 20, 2009 Available.jpg"),
						 new Array ("Daytime, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2009 Available.",
							"Daytime, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2009 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array("Tundra, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2009 Available.",
							"Tundra, oil on panel, 12 X 12, 2009 Available.jpg"),
						 new Array ("Rafael Swell, oil on panel, 11.75 X 11.75, 2009 Available.",
							"Rafael Swell, oil on panel, 11.75 X 11.75, 2009 Available.jpg"),
						 new Array("Wy'east, oil on panel, 10.5 X 10.5, 2009 Available.",
							"Wy'east, oil on panel, 10.5 X 10.5, 2009 Available.jpg"),
				         new Array("I Found What I Came Here For, oil on panel, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.",
							"I Found What I Came Here For, oil on panel, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array("Ascending, oil on panel, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Ascending, oil on panel, 36 X 36, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Corridor, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Corridor, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "First Glimpse Of Mccleod Ganj, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2009 SOLD.",
							"First Glimpse Of Mccleod Ganj, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Sounds In The Clearing, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 Available.",
							"Sounds In The Clearing, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Wonderings, graphite on bristol paper, 19 X 24, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Wonderings, graphite on bristol paper, 19 X 24, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Untitled One, graphite and gesso on bristol paper, 24 X 19, 2009 Available.",
							"Untitled One, graphite and gesso on bristol paper, 24 X 19, 2009 Available.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Everything Wild, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Everything Wild, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Light Beckoning, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Light Beckoning, oil on canvas, 20 X 18, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Secluded Passages, oil on panel,14.5 X 16.5, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Secluded Passages, oil on panel,14.5 X 16.5, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Echoing Murmurs, oil on panel, 16 x 18, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Echoing Murmurs, oil on panel, 16 x 18, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Passing Storm, 10.5 X 10.5, oil on panel, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Passing Storm, 10.5 X 10.5, oil on panel, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Winter Solitude, oil on panel, 8 X 8, 2009 SOLD.",
							"Winter Solitude, oil on panel, 8 X 8, 2009 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "First Snow, oil on panel, 8 X 8, 2009 SOLD.",
						     "First Snow, oil on panel, 8 X 8, 2009 SOLD.jpg")
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				   "<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to<br/>\
everything else in the universe.<br/>\
<br/>\
-John Muir.",
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							"Outburst, oil on canvas, 24 X 24, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Verge, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Verge, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Border, oil on canvas, 20 X 20, 2008 Available.",
							"Border, oil on canvas, 20 X 20, 2008 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Distance, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2008 Available.",
							"Distance, oil on canvas, 30 X 46, 2008 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Walking, oil on canvas, 60 X 36, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Walking, oil on canvas, 60 X 36, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Reflection, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Reflection, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Reserve, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Reserve, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Periphery, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Periphery, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Union, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Union, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Limit, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Limit, oil on panel, 9 X 8.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Gap, oil on canvas, 15.25 X 15.25, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Gap, oil on canvas, 15.25 X 15.25, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Brim, oil on panel, 14.5  X 14.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Brim, oil on panel, 14.5  X 14.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Isolated, oil on canvas, 15 X 15, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Isolated, oil on canvas, 15 X 15, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Remote, oil on canvas, 46 X 30, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Remote, oil on canvas, 46 X 30, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Boundaries, graphite on bristol paper, 10.25 X 10.25, 2008 Available.",
							"Boundaries, graphite on bristol paper, 10.25 X 10.25, 2008 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Distance, graphite on bristol paper, 9.25 X 14.25, 2008 Available.",
							"Distance, graphite on bristol paper, 9.25 X 14.25, 2008 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Outburst, graphite on bristol paper, 14.5 X 14.5, 2008 Available.",
							"Outburst, graphite on bristol paper, 14.5 X 14.5, 2008 Available.jpg"),
					     new Array( "Border, graphite on bristol paper, 11.5 X 11.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Border, graphite on bristol paper, 11.5 X 11.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Boundaries, oil on canvas, 14.5 X 14.5, 2008 SOLD.",
							"Boundaries, oil on canvas, 14.5 X 14.5, 2008 SOLD.jpg"),
						 new Array( "Cross Over, oil on panel, 24 X 16, 2008 Available.",
							"Cross Over, oil on panel, 24 X 16, 2008 Available.jpg")
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		 new Array( "&nbsp;",
                            "<br/>\
<img src=\"Blackfish Gallery instalation view of Borderlines sereis.jpg\" alt=\"Kentree Speirs\" />\
<br/><br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2010</u></font><br/>\
BICA Bend Independent Contemporary Art, Featured artist, Bend Or. June/July<br/>\
Hanson Howard Gallery, Two person exhibition, Ashland, Or. August<br/>\
Gallery 110, Group exhibition, Seattle, Wa. August<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Front window Exhibition and Back room solo show - Portland, Or. October<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2011</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery SOLO show - Portland, Or. April<br/>\
BICA Bend Independent Contemporary Art, SOLO show- Bend, Or. August<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Front window Exhibition- Portland, Or. October<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>SOLO EXHIBITIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2009</u></font><br/>\
Black Butte Ranch, Sisters Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Front window Exhibition, Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Back room solo show, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2008</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Borderline Series, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2007</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, New Members show, Looking closer series,Portland, Or.<br/>\
Retail Therapy Gallery, Portrait series, Seattle, WA.<br/>\
Affinity Gallery, 2006 series, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2006</u></font><br/>\
Food for Thought gallery, 2006 series, Portland State University, Portland, Or.<br/>\
Utrecht, Portland Or.<br/>\
Poster Garden Gallery, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2004</u></font><br/>\
National College of Natural Medicine, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>GROUP EXHIBITIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2010</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery Group Drawing Show, Portland Or. January<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2009</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery Backroom Group Show Ð Small Works<br/>\
SAM Seattle Art Museum sales and rental gallery, Seattle, Wa.<br/>\
Autzen Gallery, PSU Alumni Exhibition juried by Chicago art critic James Yood, Portland, Or.<br/>\
BICA Bend Independent Contemporary Art, Featured Artist Bend Or.<br/>\
BICA Bend Independent Contemporary Art, Bend Or.<br/>\
BICA Bend Independent Contemporary Art, Bend Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, 30th Anniversary Members group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Group show: Oregon seen- Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Front room two person show- Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2008</u></font><br/>\
The Art Center, 6th Around Oregon Annual, juror Nancy Lindberg- Corvallis, Or. <br/>\
Blackfish Gallery Backroom group show- Portland, Or.<br/>\
Lewis & Clark College, Gender Symposium, Group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Portland's City Hall, Keep Portland Weird Juried show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Mt Hood Community Collage, Digital Dimensions, Visual Arts - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Window installation - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Carnegie Art Center, Pacific pacifists show, curator- Anne Bullock - Walla Walla, Wa.<br/>\
Portland's City Hall, Healthy Living exhibit.- Portland, Or.<br/>\
Portland Center for the Performing Arts, invitaltional group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Front room three person show- Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2007</u></font><br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Blackfish Gallery members group show, backroom - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Portland Center for the Performing Arts, invitaltional group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Portland Art Center group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Lewis & Clark College, Multicultural Symposium, Group show - Portland, Or.<br/>\
ArtCentric, 5th Around Oregon Annual,(jurors Beppu Wiarda Gallery) - Corvallis, Or.<br/>\
Newport Visual Art Center, Pacific Pacifist group show - Newport, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Members backroom exhibit,  - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Blackfish Gallery, Pacific Pacifist,  - Portland, Or.<br/>\
The Grey Area Gallery, Modern myths Exhibit,  - San Francisco, Ca.<br/>\
MJ Higgins Gallery, Modern myths Exhibit,  - Los Angeles, Ca.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2006</u></font><br/>\
Auzten Gallery: Word and Hand Exhibition of art and poetry, Portland State University - Portland, Or.<br/>\
High and Low Art Auction. Smith Bldg. Ballroom - Portland OR.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2005</u></font><br/>\
M K Gallery, Portland State University - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Food for Thought Gallery: Selected Group Exhibition, 'Air', Portland State University - Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2004</u></font><br/>\
M K Gallery, Portland Sate University- Portland, Or.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>CORPORATE AND PUPLIC COLLECTIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2010</u></font><br/>\
2010	The Bond Building, purchase: Through The Sky, 360 Bond, Bend Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2006</u></font><br/>\
2006	National College of Natural Medicine, Mural: Shamanism - Portland Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2005</u></font><br/>\
2005	Native American Youth Association (NAYA), public art works - Portland Or.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>COMMISSIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2010</u></font><br/>\
David McNally, Commissioned abstract landscape, Maine.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2009</u></font><br/>\
Clouds Hill Farm: ecological drawing - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Sharon Helms, commissioned First glimpse of Mccleod Ganj,Or.<br/>\
Kathleen Adams, commissioned painting, Durango, Co.<br/>\
Patty, Barney Brewton, portrait commission, Spokane, Wa.<br/>\
Shoshana and Jesse Rapapore, portrait commission, Boston, Ma.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2008</u></font><br/>\
Clouds Hill Farm: ecological drawing - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Annette Robinson, Ethan study - San Diego, Ca.<br/>\
Shoshana Spergel and Jesse Rapapore, portrait - Boston, Ma.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2007</u></font><br/>\
Hollis Coulthard, North West Landscape Chronicles - Wheeling, Mo.<br/>\
Clouds Hill Farm: ecological drawing - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Dr. Michael Zimmerman, portrait of Cheryl Thoen - Portland, Or.<br/>\
Cheryl Thoen, portrait of Michael Zimmerman- Portland, Or.<br/>\
Dr. Kip Kemple, commission bee - Portland, Or<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2006</u></font><br/>\
Dr. Joel Agresta, Portrait - Portland,<br/>\
Clouds Hill Farm: ecological drawing - Portland, Or.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2010</u></font><br/>\
GO Magazine Bend Oregon, Issue: 6/4/2010, pg. 14 Arts section.<br/>\
STUDIO VISIT Publication, Summer edition 2010.<br/>\
STUDIO VISIT Publication, Spring edition, volume 9, 2010.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2009</u></font><br/>\
Nugget News, By Oenta Gentry, Arts and entertainment, Tuesday, August 04, 2009.<br/>\
Blackutteranch.blogspot.com/, By Katie Williams Executive Assistant,<br/>\
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, Gallery at the Lodge Black Butte Ranch, Or.<br/>\
Oregonian,D K Row, Visual Arts Reviews, Issue: Feb 27-March 5, 2009, page: 29<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2008</u></font><br/>\
www.artlout.com - magazine<br/>\
Bug Toast CD cover art- Intersect<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2007</u></font><br/>\
Slurve Magazine, www.slurvemag.com<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1985</u></font><br/>\
Bites and Stings- a book of natural remidies for the South West, by Peter Bigfoot, Illistrations by Kentree Speris<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1986</u></font><br/>\
Catalist Magazine, Cover art, <br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1983</u></font><br/>\
Wasatch Climbs, by Les Elison and Brian Smoot, Illistrations by Kentree Speirs<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>TEACHING</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2009-present</u></font><br/>\
Private painting and drawing instruction. Portland, Or..<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2008</u></font><br/>\
Portland State University, Contemporary Studio Practices, Portland, Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2007</u></font><br/>\
Portland State University, Art in K-12 Geology Dept. Portland Or.<br/>\
Portland State University, Advanced Painting, Portland Or.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1990-2000</u></font><br/>\
Reevis School of Self Reliance of Arizona's Superstition Wilderness: instructor: nature observation skills,<br/>\
self-reliance skills- fire, water, brain-tan buckskin, organic gardening and wild edibles, botanical illustration.<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1990-1994 </u></font><br/>\
Tree's Art and Survival Summer Camp owner/operator kids' summer camp, ages 7-11 Art and primitive skills<br/>\
Taos, New Mexico.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>EDUCATION</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>2006</u></font><br/>\
BFA Portland State University, Portland, Or. (summa cum laude)<br/>\
<font color='#342826'><u>1984-86</u></font><br/>\
University of Utah, Fine Arts Dept., SLC. Ut.<br/>\
<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#736F6E'><u>BIO</u></font><br/>\
<br/>\
<img src=\"kentree_contact.jpg\" alt=\"Kentree Speirs\" />\
<br/>\
<br/>\
Kentree Speirs was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1965.  He spent his childhood at play in the mountains and deserts of Utah.  When he wasn't exploring nature he was drawing and painting.<br/>\
<br/>\
In 1983 he attended Utah State University majoring in Forestry.  transferred to the University of Utah in 1984 and enrolled in the Art department. He spent three years studying painting and drawing.  In 1986 he left college and traveled until 2002.<br/>\
<br/>\
His travels initially revolved around mountaineering and wilderness backpacking and evolved into teaching nature awareness skills, primitive skills, and sustainable living skills. During this time he kept sketchbooks and continued to<br/>\
paint.  This deep emersion into wild settings has irreversibly informed his paintings.<br/>\
<br/>\
After sixteen years of nearly constant change, he married and settled in Portland, Oregon where he returned to finish his BFA at Portland State University in painting and drawing. He graduated summa cum laude in 2006. Despite years of formal training with emphases in classical figurative work, his love of landscape and passion for the abstract and unknown emerged as his present day style." ),
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			    "<br/>\
<img src=\"Arete, oil on panel, 24 X 24, 2010.jpg\" alt=\"Kentree Speirs\" />\
<img src=\"Unending, oil on canvas, 60 X 48, 2010.jpg\" alt=\"Kentree Speirs\" />\
<img src=\"Wasatch, oil on canvas, 20 X 20, 2009.jpg\" alt=\"Kentree Speirs\" />\
<br/><br/>\
<font color='#848484'>Gallery Representation</u></font><br/>\n<br/>\
<br/>\
<a href=\"http://www.bicagallery.com/\">Bend Independent Contemporary Art (BICA)</a>,<br/>\
2748 NW Crossing Dr. STE 130, Bend, OR. 97701. (541)788-4623<br/>\
<br/>\
<a href=\"http://www.blackfish.com/\">Blackfish Gallery</a>,<br/>\
420 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR. 97209. (503)224-2634<br/>\
<br/>\
<a href=\"http://www.hansonhowardgallery.com/\">Hanson Howard Gallery</a>,<br/>\
82 North Main, Ashland, OR 97520. (541) 488-2562<br/>\
<br/>\
<a href=\"http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Visit/visitRSG.asp\">Seattle Art Museum (SAM)</a>,<br/>\
Seattle Tower 1220 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA. 98101. (206)343-1101<br/>\
<br/>\
<font color='#848484'contact>Contact</u></font><br/>\n<br/>\
<br/>\<a href=\"mailto:kentreeart@gmail.com\">kentreeart@gmail.com</a><br/>\
commissions considered upon request"),
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			    "<br/>\
&nbsp;&nbsp;My artwork has always drawn inspiration from the natural world. I'm awed by the raw beauty and the drama of untamed places, and my heart and mind are drawn to them.  Silence is an inspiring presence in remote places, and I work to bring that presence to life in my paintings.  Likewise, stillness and movement are intrinsic elements in nature, and their expression is important in my work.  Yet I live in an urban world.  I spend my days exploring my relationship to the landscapes that I'm in and the landscapes in my memory and imagination.<br/>\
<br/>\
&nbsp;&nbsp;To begin a painting, I'll pick a color, a shape, a sketch, or perhaps a photograph to serve as a departure point.  This inspiration is then consumed by the painting.  The properties of color compel the work.  I start with one color, then add another and respond to their interaction.  Another color brings new interactions.  From there, the painting develops its own life as relationships expand, and as the whole begins to express a feeling of place.<br/>\
<br/>\
&nbsp;&nbsp;I might work on ten paintings simultaneously.  In the studio, I surround myself with paintings in various stages of development.  I spend long periods looking at their colors, shapes, and the evolving relationships.  When I begin to feel a spark, I act to enliven it.  I may obliterate surface images, methodically work detail into an area, or repetitiously sculpt marks with paint.  I appreciate sweeping gestural paint strokes, thickly applied, as much as thin translucent layering.  I enjoy combining different methods of applying paint because it sets up the challenge of resolving their relationship to one another.  Compositional structure can come from geometric or organic shapes, but organic shapes predominate, as reflected in nature.  Shape and color set the stage for a delicate balance of serendipity and intention.  In each proceeding painting, I let chance and intention work together to refine an expression of the world that is always new, yet known, to me.<br/>\
<br/>\
&nbsp;&nbsp;In the end, it all comes back to creating a provocative assemblage of color and form, expressing, and enlivened by, my relationship to the natural world.<br/>" )
		 );
}
function kClear( clearTxtNav )
{
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    list.innerHTML = "&nbsp;";
    //while( list.hasChildNodes( ) ) {
    //  list.removeChild( list.lastChild );
    //}
  }

  var list2 = document.getElementById( "coll_list" );
  list2.innerHTML = "&nbsp;";
  //while( list2.hasChildNodes( ) ) {
  //  list2.removeChild( list2.lastChild );
  //}

  var imgElement = document.getElementById( "img" );
  imgElement.innerHTML = "&nbsp;";
  //imgElement.alt = "IMG";
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  //imgElement.appendChild( document.createTextNode( "" ) );

  var title = document.getElementById( "title" );
  title.innerHTML = "&nbsp;";
}
function showImg( txt, imgName )
{
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    imgElement.removeChild( imgElement.lastChild );
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    newImg.src = imgName;
    //center.appendChild( newImg );
    imgElement.appendChild( newImg );
    var title = document.getElementById( "title" );
    title.innerHTML = "<br/>" + txt;
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}
function showTxt( element, ttl, txt )
{
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    var imgElement = document.getElementById( "img" );
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    newTxt.innerHTML = txt;
    imgElement.appendChild( newTxt );
    var title = document.getElementById( "title" );
    title.innerHTML = ttl;
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}
function showColl( element, collName, collectionDescription, coll )
{
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      window.portfolio.lastClickedElement.style.color = "#736f6e";
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    element.style.color = "#000000";
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    kClear(0);
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    list.appendChild( create_html( "<br/>" ) );
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      list.appendChild( newSpace );
    }

    var imgElement = document.getElementById( "img" );
    imgElement.removeChild ( imgElement.lastChild );
    var collectionDescriptionElement = document.createElement( "div" );
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    //collectionDescriptionElement.style.width = "650";
    //collectionDescriptionElement.style.align = "justify";
    collectionDescriptionElement.innerHTML = collectionDescription;
    imgElement.appendChild( collectionDescriptionElement );

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}
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}
function collover()
{
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    var collectionDescription = item[1];
    var titleAndImgs = item[2];
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}
function bioover()
{
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    var img = item[1];
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    itemHTML.style.color = "#736F6E";
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      return function() {
	toggle_text_decor( this_item, 3, 1 );
      }
    }( itemHTML );
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    list.appendChild( itemHTML );
    if ( (i+1) != window.portfolio.bio.length ) {
      list.appendChild( create_html( " &nbsp;|&nbsp; " ) );
    }
  }
}
function toggle_text_decor( elem, click_over_out, level )
{
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    window.portfolio.last_recall[ level ][ 1 ] = "overline";
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    elem.style.textDecoration = 'overline';
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    window.portfolio.last_recall[ level ][ 1 ] = elem.style.textDecoration;
    elem.style.textDecoration = 'overline underline';
  } else if ( click_over_out == 3 ) {
    elem.style.textDecoration = window.portfolio.last_recall[ level ][ 1 ];
  } else {
    alert( "toggle_text_decor failed" );
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}
function start()
{
  window.portfolio = new Portfolio( );
  var numOfCollections = window.portfolio.collections.length;
  var aCollection = Math.floor( Math.random() * numOfCollections );
  var numOfPieces = window.portfolio.collections[aCollection][2].length;
  while (!numOfPieces)
  {
    aCollection = Math.floor( Math.random() * numOfCollections );
    numOfPieces = window.portfolio.collections[aCollection][2].length;
  }
  var aPiece = Math.floor( Math.random() * numOfPieces );
  var collName = window.portfolio.collections[aCollection][0];
  var title = window.portfolio.collections[aCollection][2][aPiece][0];
  var name = "imgs/"+window.portfolio.collections[aCollection][2][aPiece][1];
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}