Ever since Kearns Stapleton (American, b.1952) was a young child, he has single-mindedly pursued his goal of being a professional artist. Stapleton considers his true artistic training to have begun in the mid-1970s with the late Boston painter R.H. Ives Gammell.

It was during one of these summers, while in Boston, that Kearns took his easel outdoors, up on Beacon Hill, and began applying Gammell’s lessons to landscape painting.

The engrossing challenges of bringing the vastness of nature to canvas quickly captured Stapleton’s imagination. Painting outdoors, communicating the visual poetic beauty of a particular place, remains the focus of Stapleton’s artistic expression to this day.

Stapleton’s paintings are in hundreds of private collections, in the United States and around the world. During the 1990s, a single major American corporation collected several hundred of his paintings. Stapleton has participated in over 25 solo or small group shows during the past decade alone. He has twice shown in the biannual show of the National Academy of Design in New York City. The American Embassy in Moscow displayed one of his large snow scenes as an example of American painting in the Arts in Embassies program. He is a member of the exclusive Guild of Boston Artists, and serves as the president of the Rockport Art Association.