Grant Drumheller work is characterized by a strong sense of light, texture and color. During a recently completed sabbatical he painted for an extended period on the Maine coast as well as at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. In addition he maintains a studio in Portsmouth, NH, where he creates large scale works derived from images gathered in these travels.
Drumheller is a painter and Professor of Art at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA. He studied at Boston University where his most influential teachers were Philip Guston, James Weeks and Reed Kay.
Drumheller has been the recipient of many awards and accolades including the Pollock Krasner Award, a New England Foundation for the Arts Individual Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts Artists Fellowship, A Blanche Colman Award and a Fulbright Hays Grant in Painting to Italy. Most recently he was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Drumheller has had numerous exhibitions including one person shows at the Galleria Inquadrature in Florence, Italy, the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH and the Creiger-Dane Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. His work can be seen at the George Marshall Store Gallery of the York Historical Society(ME),The Prince Street Gallery in New York City and the Greenhut Galleries in Portland, Maine. He lives in New Castle, New Hampshire with his wife, Karina.