Longtime Point Reyes artist Charles Eckart will celebrate his 85th birthday with a one-man exhibition at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, running from Feb. 1 to March 1. The title of the show, “For the Love of Paint,” speaks to Eckart’s devotion to the expressive powers of pure pigment.
Nature is central to his work. In 1946, at the end of the World War II, his mother married the general manager of Yosemite…