Mark Messersmith
They Fight, They Fall Summer Storm Blue Southernaire 2 Machinery of Summer Bridge across the St.Marks river Good Night Going Badly A Very Hot June Halcyon Days 1986 The Night They Returned Victim of Silence Evening Labors Vapid Visionaries August night at the boat ramp O.F.C's pasture Sweltering Eventide Summer of 2010 Lost Hindsight Heights of Summer Moonbeams King Fishers Evanescence Field Summer Respite Azure Evening Autumn Eventide Night Burns Unsettled Spring May Blooming Warm Spring Those Who Believe Autumn Artifice Summer Chase Midnight Sale Paradise of Sacrifice Wolfish Nature October Sunset Golden Forest Gatorland Spring Twilight Afternoon Heat In Deep Woods, Forgotten Deceptive Nature Moonlit Landscape Inability to Remain Sunrise Disguised Vespertine Sacrifice Wayfarers Magnolias, M.J.H. Edge of Town Summer Solstice Morning Innocence Stand The Collectors Summer Afternoon Moonlight on the Wacissa Ursa Major Southernaire Artificial Lures Strange Matters Afternoon of a Faun Inquisitive Nature Night Falls
Since moving to the Southeastern United States in 1985, I have been fascinated with the uniqueness of the regions environment, and the beauty of its lands and animals. While both the land and animals are vulnerable, they share a strong determination for survival and can still offer potential dangers for the unwary visitor.

The fading landscape I paint, is at least for awhile, out there someplace, somewhere just beyond the urban sprawl, shopping malls, and trailer parks. It is still a land of myths and facts, inhabited by powerful birds, vigilant panthers, weary gators, blackwater swamps, old cypress trees, back road citrus stands and careening logging trucks.