Nature Art: Powder Valley Art Gallery: July Featured Artist

Visit Powder Valley's Art Gallery to view the work of our July Featured Artist, Harold Ostergaard. See below for the artist's bio: Music turned into a profession as both an educator and musician, while sports remained a childhood pastime. Outdoor life, with all its activities, brought life with an appreciation for all things natural. Photography began as a father and son activity in the darkroom. This is where the magic began. In near dark a ghostly image would begin to form in the developing tray and morph into a startling clear image. Sometimes it even matched the image imagined through the lens when taking the shot. I squandered much of my youth in that darkroom. Today that magic still exists, and I waste much of my time with a camera in my hands. In self-defense, photography has become a great vehicle for sharing my other passion, nature. Concerning my remaining youthful interest, sports! Sadly, the Cardinals lost out on a great right-handed pitcher but found a fair replacement in Bob Gibson. My photography is currently featured at the Silver Sycamore Gallery of Fine Art in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. My works have appeared in several juried exhibits in The Gallery at the Library in Hermann, Missouri. My solo exhibit “Natural Missouri, A Diary Through the Lens” has been touring Missouri Conservation Nature Centers for the past several years. One photograph received first place in the 2023 MoDNR Photo Contest and another received third place in the MCD Missouri Snapshot Contest. The 2023 MoDNR photo was part of an exhibit at the Missouri State Capitol. The Snapshot photo was published in the Rural Missouri Magazine and exhibited at the Missouri State Fair. My wife Mary and I share our passion for photography and are always on the hunt for the next photograph. See Harold's work beginning July 11th. Gallery will be up through the end of July 31st.