Berquist took up painting in early 2000 working primarily with Acylics. Over the last 16 years he has been working with the idea of POV (point of view) and how beautiful and often precious moments captured in our minds are fleeting and lost as we witness them in but a glympse while our busy eyes focus on the immediate and often mundane tasks at hand. Those image perspectives whether macro or micro that we seem to catch but often miss. Many of his paintings are inspired by this notion and are representative of exactly that, quick captured moments in time, memories from a flash POV perspective, remembered but so often lost. Most recently, he has been experimenting with mixed media, foils and forms of gel. Although hard to represent here in photographs some of the painting below actually reflect light by means of underlying foils, buildings are actually textured and flora are actually three dimensional.
Itallian Riviera
Maritime village at Dawn, fleet is gone
Courage in a storm
Fleeting Fall colors on the lake
A moment in spring
Blue Bells in the sun
A Garden Path in Costa Rica
As you walk along and wonder
In the Lobby of the Hotel
The Sun has just hit the table
If you look close at a Tulip just for a moment
Ah the Selfie moment
About to cast a Fly
Look up the cavern as the light hits
Out the Window of a Plane - Aerial Landscape
Deep in the bush of a Costa Rica Garden
Tree or Monument - a study of Ansel Adams
