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Biography:
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Completion of my first oil painting was in 1966 during the third year of high school art instruction. For two decades following, painting was for self–enjoyment while I traveled from coast to coast and gig to gig as a musician with rhythm and blues bands. Gradually, painting grew from diversion to career.
Working exclusively in oil, I attempt to capture the feel of the landscape by location painting, quick sketches, and photographing with the finished piece completed in the studio. Whether painting the vastness of the Grand Canyon, the Arizona desert, Monument Valley, the Rocky Mountains, or a sunset on the Great Plains, my objective is to create a piece that comes together by knowing what to paint in and what to leave to a viewer’s imagination and eye.
My work metamorphosed from a romanticized style to translation of the subject in a natural, looser “as it is“ style. Viewers and collectors have taken favorable notice. My passion, determination, and persistence have been rewarded with personal invitation to several annual shows.
1995 – present: Gilcrease Museum American Art in Miniature Exhibit, Tulsa, OK
2005 – present: NatureWorks Wildlife Show & Sale, Tulsa, OK
2006 – present: Night of Artists Sale & Gala, San Antonio, TX hosted by the National Western Art Foundation & the Dolph Briscoe Western Art Museum
2008 – present: Panhandle–Plains Invitational, Canyon, TX
Achievements/Honors
Art of the West feature in March/April issue of 2005
Selected artist for the 2006 Oklahoma Artist Series by C. Kendric Fergeson, national treasurer for Americans for the Arts and a 2009 Oklahoma Hall of Fame inductee, Award of Excellence recipient in 2005, 2006, 2007 at the NatureWorks Wildlife Show and selected unanimously as feature artist for the 2010 show, Panhandle–Plains Invitational, 2008 and a first year participant, received the show’s only honor, the Lead Steer Award.
Collectors include financier & oilman T. Boone Pickens and baseball great Nolan Ryan.
Current gallery representation includes Collectors Covey, Dallas, TX since October 2006 with aone–man show set for April 2010 and Settlers West, Tucson, AZ since 2008.
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