Sometimes known as the "Renaissance Man," Marc Postlewaite has successfully started and ran 12 successful businesses ranging from a chain of art galleries, to restaurants, to high-tech laser and computer chip companies. He has published several newspapers and city magazines, and had several high-tech patents registered with the US Patent Office (one of which received the coveted medal of distinction from the Smithsonian Institute). Educated at Harvard, he took up painting as a hobby when he was just a boy growing up in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Always loving the creations of Nature, he has traveled to the planes of Africa, the fiords of Norway, the Amazon River, and the jungles of Central America to get a better understanding of the intricacy and diversity of nature. When he retired in 1998 from his high-stress job as CEO of the computer chip company he started, he moved back to the foothills of the Smoky Mountains where he lives with his wife of 35-years on a 140 acre farm where he reaises "pet cows," paints and drives his John Deere tractor daily. While formerly educated in journalism, business, and physics, he has had private art training from such renowned and widely-known artist as Jim Gray, Chris Still, Ven Hippensteal, and Mitchell Toole.

While showing a priest friend some of his newly finished watercolors, the priest said, "well you are just 'Nature's Painter' aren't you?" His friends who overheard the priest's comments began to kid him about the remark and the nickname stuck.

"I love the Appalachian Mountains," he says, "they are the oldest, most diverse, and greenest mountains in the world, including the mountains of Ireland and Scotland, which I dearly love. My goal is to capture the depths of the greens in the lush foliage, and the mysterious and wonderful feeling that I get when walking through these billion-year-old rain forests -- it's easier said than done."

Marc and his wife Marion have 17 cows (Herefords), 10 ducks, 4 geese, two cats, and a dog, that live with them on their mountain farm -- and four "great" sons, who come by occasionally.

While he has several private collectors, his paintings and giclee prints, were first offered to the public July of 2003, and many new collectors have taken this opportunity to begin collecting his complete works.