Join ASLD for a studio visit with artist Gregory Block at his studio in Wheat Ridge, CO.

Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986 and moved to Colorado at an early age.  During his childhood, he attended a Waldorf school where he discovered a love of painting, sculpture, music, and the natural world.   He continued to develop his skills as an artist and musician throughout high school, and painted whenever he could while earning his BA in biology at Colorado College.   As a student, he made a conscious decision not to take any painting courses or adopt a mentor, opting instead to learn through experimentation and close scrutiny of paintings by artists he admired.  After graduating in 2009, he devoted his studies to painting and has since gained recognition as "one of the most promising young artists in the representational art world" (Fine Art Today).  He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Some of Gregory's first true memories are of painting with watercolors as a very young child. Painting has always been his passion, and that passion has elevated him to a position as a well-recognized realist painter with a far-reaching oeuvre and a devoted following.  So in the summer of 2023 when he contracted a rare parasitic eye infection and lost all vision in his right eye, he realized he'd have to drastically alter his practice for the foreseeable future. Since then, he's experimented with many novel techniques, determined to "follow the process" through a strange new world rich with mystery and inspiration.