www.jimhefley.com

For many years, Jim has been an active outdoorsman. When he located to Western NC, he combined his passion for painting with his love of the many beautiful streams of this area where he fly fishes for trout and bass. Many of his paintings feature a beautiful mountain trout stream with a fly fisherman actively pursuing trout.  His trout fishing painting series features WNC streams within our National Forests and within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He also paints landscapes showcasing our beautiful mountain vistas and our spectacular waterfalls.

Jim lived and worked in Europe for a number of years. During that time he developed a real appreciation for the countryside fields, farmhouses, and villages in several countries. Because of that interest, he creates a number of landscapes of scenes in England, France and Italy, including some very colorful paintings of lavender fields in Provence, vineyards and villas in Tuscany, and barges on the canals of France and England.

In addition to creating art for galleries and shows, he also enjoys doing oil paintings on a commission basis since the landscape scenes chosen by clients are very special to them and very diverse in subject matter.

Jim generally paints in a  representational style, but also likes to create some paintings in a more impressionistic style if the scene and the light encourage that approach.  Jim has painted with and taken oil painting workshops from prominent Southeastern artists John Mac Kah, Peggy Taylor, Deborah Squier, Mikki Dillon, Sarah Sneeden and Julyan Davis.

 Jim is an active member of Trout Unlimited and devotes volunteer time to support a number of their programs. In fact, Jim donates a portion of the proceeds from all sales of his paintings to help send disadvantaged boys and girls to the annual NC Trout Unlimited Youth Camp.