Jeff Chapman-Crane is a Full-Time Professional Artist
Living and Working in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Jeff is a painter, a sculptor, and has lived and practiced his art since the early 1970s. His art focuses on the culture of Appalachia, with an emphasis on portraits of mountain people. Jeff, along with wife and artist Sharman own and operate Ancient Oaks Art Studio and Valley of the Winds Art Gallery in Eolia, Kentucky, in Letcher County about half way between Whitesburg, in Letcher County and Cumberland in Harlan County. The gallery is only a short drive from Southwest Virginia. Gallery hours are by appointment only. Please call 606-335-9435 for scheduling or contact us here.

New Work

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Switch Tower on the Baxter Line

Watercolor, 2020

Dimensions: 13” x 10”

Like a sentry, this tower keeps watch along the tracks in the community of Baxter, in Harlan County.

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O’er the River - SOLD!

Watercolor, 2020

Dimensions: 10” x 14”

The tree-lined river winding through the bottomland with its lingering snow, the distant woods and even more distant mountains…a quintessential Appalachian winter landscape.

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Four Calling Birds SOLD!

Watercolor and gouache, 2016

Dimensions: 10” x 13.5”

An early snow has covered the ground and delayed the wood splitting in preparation for the coming winter. A few birds peck for seeds and insects as they, too, prepare for the cold weather ahead.

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Portraits

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Commissions

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Landscapes

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Figurative

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Sculptures & Dioramas