Davis Perkins is a California landscape painter with an unusual background. He has had a long career as a smokejumper, firefighter, paramedic, as well as professional artist. After serving as a paratroop sergeant (first with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and later with the 12th Special Forces Group of the Army Reserve), Davis worked 13 summers as a smokejumper, parachuting into forest fires with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. During the winter he attended art school, graduating from the University of Oregon with a degree in fine arts. His early work was featured in solo exhibitions at the Alaskan State Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Air & Space Museum; both museums selected his work for their permanent collections. In addition, he has a painting in the Pentagon with the United States Air Force Art Collection as well as in the collections of several other public institutions. Davis exhibits his work in galleries and other art venues in Northern California, while continuing his life of travel and public service. In 2007 he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and created paintings from his view at the summit. He remains active as a paramedic, and as a member of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team of the Department of Health and Human Services. Since 2010 Davis has served on medical relief missions to Haiti, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Liberia (Ebola outbreak), Vanuatu, Nepal, Lesvos, Greece to aid with the refugee crisis, and Mosul, Iraq, working with trauma patients in the current conflict.
Davis has been featured in several national magazines, including the April/May 2018 issue of the Plein Air Magazine. He is an Artist Member of the California Art Club and a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America.
View the archived show page for Carol Peek & Davis Perkins: Painting The West, presented by the Gallery February 10—March 16, 2024.
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Methow River, Washington
Oil on panel, 10″ x 12″.
No. 16 CV—1 3/4″ joined with dovetail keys. 23kt gilt sight edge. Fumed quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain.
SOLD.
Grace’s Barn
Oil on panel, 11″ x 14″.
Framed in a No. 26 CV—2 1/2″ with 23kt gilt sight edge. Quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain.
SOLD
Towards the Coast Range
Oil on canvas, 18″ x 18″.
SOLD.
November in Quartz Valley, CA
Oil on canvas, 20″ x 24″.
Framed in a No. 16—1 1/2″ with 23kt gilt sight edge. Quartersawn white oak with Dark Medieval stain.
SOLD.
Object of Curiosity (Quartz Valley)
Oil on panel, 11″ x 14″. Painting only: $2,800.
Framed in a No. 1000—2″ in quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain.
SOLD.
Friden’s Barn, Scott Valley, CA
Oil on panel, 10″ x 12″.
Framed in a No. 16 CV—1 3/4″ in quartersawn white oak with Saturated Weathered stain. Sight edge finished with bronze powder suspended in linseed oil wax.
SOLD.
Study for November in Quartz Valley
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 10.1 CV—1 1/2″ in quartersawn white oak with Dark Medieval stain.
SOLD
Early March in the Valley (Scott Valley, CA)
Oil on panel, 10″ x 12″.
Framed in a No. 1.3 CV—2” in quartersawn white oak with Weathered stain. 18kt gilt slip.
SOLD.
Lassen Creek #2
Oil on panel, 10″ x 8″.
Framed in a No. 2.1 CV—2-1/4″ in quartersawn white oak with Dark Weathered stain.
SOLD
Storm in the Marble Wilderness
Oil on canvas, 24″x 30″.
Framed in a No. 341.4 CV in quartersawn white oak with Dark Medieval stain. 23kt gilt slip.
SOLD.
After the Shower
2020. Oil on panel, 10″ x 12″.
SOLD
Burney Falls
Oil on panel, 12″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 1.4 CV in quartersawn white oak with Dark Medieval stain. 23kt gilt slip.
SOLD.
Lassen Creek
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 1.3 CV in quartersawn white oak with Dark Medieval stain. 23kt gilt slip.
SOLD.
Lassen Creek
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 1.4 CV with 18kt gilt sight edge—2″ in quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain. (Inquire for other frame options.)
SOLD.
Rebecca’s Barn
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 22.6—1 1/2″ with 23kt gilt sight edge in walnut with Dark Medieval stain.
SOLD
Doc’s Pond (Study)
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 16—2″ in quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain. 18kt gilt slip. (Inquire for other frame options.)
SOLD.
After the Rains (Scott Valley)
Oil on board, 9″ x 12″.
Framed in a No. 1100 CV—2 1/2″ in quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain. 23kt gilt slip. (Inquire for other frame options.)
SOLD.
Hayden’s Barn
Oil on panel, 10″ x 10″.
Framed in No. 22 CV—2″. Quartersawn white oak (Medieval stain) with a 23kt gilt liner. (Inquire for other frame options.)
SOLD.
Joe’s Barn
Oil on panel, 8″ x 10″.
Framed in a No. 22 CV—2″. Quartersawn white oak (Medieval stain) with a 23kt gilt slip.
SOLD.