Artist Dennis Shook
Dennis Shook is a native North Carolinian who graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio with a degree in Personnel Management. He began seriously painting in 1993 and completed fine arts courses at Gaston County Community College. Later he began to teach evening watercolor classes at Gaston County Community College in 1997until the present. He is most at home in the North Carolina Mountains where much of his artistic expression comes from. The artists who have had the most impact on his style and passion are Winslow Homer, Andres Wyeth and contemporary artist, Steven Scott Young, Howard Shropshire, and Robert Bateman.
Shook is most comfortable with painting landscapes and wildlife in watercolors, utilizing dry brush technique for the most part, but enjoys painting in pastels for an occasional recess. He says that his pastels are much looser than his watercolors which tend to be very representational.
Shook has won numerous awards regionally and his paintings can be found in public and private collections as well as University collections. He was selected as one of only five artists to participate in the 2004 “Interplay” sculpture and painting exhibit at the Gaston County Museum. Shook has exhibited at the Schiele Museum, the Gaston County Museum, Gaston College, Lincoln and Cleveland county Cultural Centers.
