Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Bach was formally trained at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where he majored in painting and illustration. He worked as an illustrator for numerous publications and advertising clients before beginning a fifteen year project creating wall murals for Olive Garden Restaurants. He painted over 1500 murals in forty-seven states. Bach has also designed and executed original artwork and murals for NBA City at Universal Studios, Edwin Watts Golf Shops, and Walt Disney Resorts.
In 1999, Bach began experimenting with acrylic and oils on canvas, painting remembrances of places visited. This grew into a passion and he became a full time landscape artist. Bach focuses on the serenity of a scene while pushing the effects of color and light. “Painting for me is a bit of escapism. I paint what brings me solitude. Perhaps it’s a feeling one gets when viewing vast spaces. It makes the pressure and demands of life seem less consequential. Many of my pieces reflect that time of day when the light softens, and colors that are invisible in the high sun appear again. Connecting that mood of peacefulness to a painted surface is the never-ending challenge.”
Bach describes his process: ”Many of my large paintings are done from imagination. They’re simply made up as I go. Therefore there’s a lot of trial and error in the process. The visual harmony of a finished piece usually conceals this bedlam of paint in the underlying layers. The challenge is to make pleasing order from the chaos. When it works, it’s very satisfying.”
Bach’s paintings are included in numerous private collections, and have been shown at leading art festivals including the Ann Arbor Street Fair in Michigan, St. Louis Art Fair, Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, Chicago Old Town Art Fair, and the Disney Festival of the Masters in Florida.
