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21st Century
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1990’s
In the mid 1980’s I took a job on a film crew and was swept away by movie making. I had completely stopped painting as I pursued a career in the motion picture industry for the next ten years. Having worked my way up to the “camera crew” and becoming a member of the IATSE film workers union and having produced a couple of documentaries of my own, I decided to give up my aspirations of becoming a big time director and returned to painting in 1995. In the second half of the 1990 decade I painted these 16 paintings.
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1980’s
In 1983 at the age of 33, I left my Rocky Mountain home and moved to the coast of South Carolina. I was riding the wave of the bohemian culture that had formed in America following the Vietnam War. Many of my paintings were reflective of that world. Music seemed to be a centerpiece for many us and many of my paintings were of people either playing music or people listening to music.
When I wasn’t painting those paintings, I was out with my easel painting the landscapes of the Low Country as well as the world around me. These are those paintings.
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1970’s
I had an aptitude for drawing from an early age. In the high school I attended, the school offered an elective they called “art major” where a student could elect to take two art classes a day. They were my favorite two classes. After graduation in 1969, I drifted around the United States and Canada as did many young Americans at the time.
It was in 1973 at the age of 23 that I settled down in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, making a decision to pursue art as a career. When you are 23 years old, your dreams are big and you still believe that anything is possible. The paintings in this category represent that youthful joy of living.
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Nudes
The Rocky Mountain School of Art emphasized figure painting and drawing. Here are some samples I did while studying there in the 1970’s.
