Living Artists
The following artists are represented by Helena Fox Fine Art
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Sarah Amos Sarah Amos was born in Llantwit Major, South Wales in 1949. While in Wales, she studied art at Newport College of Art; studied design and silversmithing at High Wycombe College of Art and taught silversmithing at Bath Technical College. In 1973, Amos moved to New York, where she studied ancient techniques of goldsmithing at Kulicke-Stark Academy of Jewelry and for 10 years taught goldsmithing at the school, which is now called Jewelry Art Institute. Terry DeLapp Born in Pasadena in 1934, Terry DeLapp studied at the Chouinards Art Academy in Hollywood and at the University of California. DeLapp currently lives and works in Cambria, California. He has been exhibiting his paintings since the early 1980’s, participating in group shows in California, New Mexico and elsewhere. DeLapp has had numerous solo exhibitions as well, most recently at the Bakersfield Museum of Art (1998). His paintings can be found at the San Diego Museum of Art, and in the many private collections, including those of Steve Martin, Martin Mull, Joan Rivers, Juilan Ganz, and Robert Zemeckis. Kenn Backhaus Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in 1951, Kenn spent much of his childhood on the family farm near Burnett, Wisconsin. His fondness for nature became the catalyst for his art. Kenn’s parents encouraged his artistic education and following High School, he attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduation from Layton in 1973, he embarked on his professional career in Design and Illustration. As a commercial designer and illustrator Kenn received many awards at both local and national levels, which included acceptance in the Annual Society of Illustrators Show in New York. Although Kenn took pride in his commercial successes, his heart always belonged to the fine art of outdoor painting. Christina Bates The Lowcountry of South Carolina has become the heart of Christina Bates’ work. Portraying this area of the South’s history, culture and sport has been her focus since moving from New Jersey in 1981. Christina attended Centenary College, and then went on to obtain a BFA from Rutgers University. However, she attributes most of her art education to Carroll Jones, internationally acclaimed artist, whom she studied under for 4 years. John Budicin Born in 1944, in Rovigno, Italy and moved to the United States in 1955. He was educated at Riverside Community College and presently lives and maintains his studio in San Bernardino, CA. Budicin is a highly accomplished Plein Air painter and travels extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Donald Demers Donald Demers was born in 1956, in the small, rural community of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. His interest in painting maritime subjects began while spending his summers on the coast of Maine near Boothbay Harbor. Demers, having drawn and painted from a very early age, furthered his education at the School of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, and the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. Mary Erickson Mary Erickson has been painting since she can remember. She grew up sketching the beaches of Long Island Sound in Connecticut and has always been able to find beauty in her surroundings, whether along a southern shore or in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. She sold her first painting to Gulf+Western Industries in Stamford, Connecticut at 13. Marie Fox Marie Fox’s paintings have been represented by galleries across the country. Since her two-person show in Nantucket in 1987, she has shown work in Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She is currently represented by Helena Fox Fine Art Gallery in Charleston. West Fraser West Fraser was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1955, and raised in nearby Hinesville until 1964, when his family moved to Hilton Head Island. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Art’s degree in 1979. The following year in Savannah, he worked independently as an illustrator and began his first serious painting in watercolors. From 1980 to 1984, he lived in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania, and began traveling up and down the New England coast to paint maritime subjects and harbor scenes. In 1984, he settled in Charleston, continued his work in watercolor through the late 1980s. The realistic, detailed marine compositions from this period resulted in early critical recognition, with a 1984 two-man show at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City, and his first one-man exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston in 1986 through early 1987. William McCullough William McCullough was born in 1948 and is a native of South Carolina. In 1968, he left South Carolina for the National Academy of Art and Design in New York City. He spent four years figure drawing and painting at the National Academy of Design. He studied under acclaimed realist painters Eric Eisenberger and Daniel Greene. During his time in the northeast he also had the opportunity to apprentice with Robert Brackman and John Koch. Joseph McGurl Joseph McGurl was born in Massachusetts in 1958. He grew up working with his father, James McGurl, who was a muralist and his most influential teacher. Through him, he was exposed to a wide variety of materials and learned an appreciation of the craft of painting. Another early influence was Ralph Rosenthal, a teacher at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He subsequently graduated from Massachusetts College of Art with a dual major in painting and education. He also studied in England and Italy. After college, he worked for a period of time as a yacht captain, sailing throughout the east coast from Maine to the Caribbean. After a few years he realized that in order to improve, he must devote himself solely to painting. In search of a more solid training in drawing, he sought out Robert Cormier, a devotee of the French Academy methods and he studied figure drawing under him. Billyo O'Donnell Billyo O’Donnell thrives on his passion for creating paintings en plein air that mark the exact point in time at which his inspiration happens. He thinks of his paintings as a diary of his artwork telling a story of himself at that moment. When he paints, it reminds him of how he must react spontaneously to inspiration in life or chance losing that significant experience. And, it is his easy nature in his style of living, synchronizing with the ease he feels when creating his works of art, that make those moments unique. Becky Parrish Having been a self-employed artist since 1988, Becky Parrish has developed and honed her considerable skills as an artist. She graduated with a BA from George Mason University, and a MFA from George Washington University. Through the years, she pursued her art by taking painting workshops and art studio course as well. Becky also worked as the Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Lord Fairfax Community College from 1999 to 2003. Joseph Paquet Joseph Paquet, while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, had the good fortune of finding a mentor in John Foote who opened his eyes to the joys of drawing the human figure. After graduating, Joe met another major influence in his life, John Osborne, who was uniquely gifted in producing convincing landscape paintings from memory. Osborne believed a landscape painting should begin on location, but that its poetic essence should be completed in the solitude of the artist’s studio. Paquet experienced a demanding and rewarding apprenticeship, in which he learned to fuse field studies with the image he could see in his mind’s eye. To summarize this experience, he explains, “The intellectual process became married to the intuitive. Paint what you know well as what you see.” He goes on to expand the possibilities, “If I have the need or desire to move a mountain, add a figure or change the course of a river, I can do so. I am no longer shackled to nature. Now, I am painting my picture.” Paquet teaches and paints at Hurinenko and Paquet Studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kent Ullberg Born in Sweden in 1945, he became a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas from where he became one of the most recognized American wildlife sculptors in the late 20th century. He has done numerous public commissions.In 1998, he won the top award at the Prix de West show in Oklahoma City for his bronze “Ocean’s Cradle.” The work depicts a mother otter cradling her pup and resulted from a three-day trip in the Pacific Ocean sketching and photographing sea otters and their pups cavorting in the waters off California’s Monterey Peninsula. Teri Whitner Teri Whitner’s life is filled with wonder, humor and adventure. She grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, spent years offshore fishing all over the world, the diverse vitality of the natural world has been her inspiration. Ms. Whitner has three young boys, multiple domestic animals, lizards, exotic birds, and red-eye tree frogs fill her world. |
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