Through the Eyes of Van Gogh

A one-man show created by Scott Shepherd and based on the master's own words.

Meet the quintessential misunderstood artist

Spinning 'round in his studio or staging a mesmerizing re-enactment of his Mistral Wind-tossed landscape, Mr. Shepherd's embodiment of Vincent draws his audience into his earnest desire to speak through his paintings, his feverish creativity and his unbridled joy in his love of many things, using slides monologue and theatrics, demonstrations, and audience-participatory reenactments.

See into the heart of such a nobody

In this moving performance, you will meet Vincent, the evangelist-turned-painter, and get to know his life, his times, and his intentions for his work. You will see why he chose to express the struggle of life and sought to comfort people through his paintings. Vincent voices the battle cry for the next century of artists: "Exaggerate the essential and leave the obvious vague."

As an evangelist-painter who saw his duty to comfort the common person's neediness with art, Vincent was a determined, prolific art student, charged with purpose and desire, increasingly aware of the power of art. Very lonely, he had a persistent dream of founding an artist colony far from city life.

Vincent knowingly gave his life to painting, only to have to paint in order to save his life. Translating all that he saw into colors, he created 879 turbulent symphonies of light. Into his extremely short, 10-year career of feverish productivity, Vincent compacted a lifetime of painting, broke new artistic ground, and set the stage for all the modern art movements that followed.

Witness his creativity as it crescendos into a rolling boil!

Memorable quotations

Michelangelo Buonnaroti

Auguste Rodin

Leonardo da Vinci

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Monet