"Your work is to discover your work –
and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
(Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha)
and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
(Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha)
Biography
Bruce is an artist who began painting in the 1990’s while living in California’s rural central coast. Over the years his paintings have been displayed in art galleries and art shows throughout California, Colorado, Wyoming and Washington, and in privet art collections around the World. He currently creates original oil paintings from his Ojai, California studio as well as in plein air. “Ojai’s surroundings provide inspiration for much of my new work and reflects the diversity of California’s beautiful landscape,” Bruce says. He enjoys painting impressionistic landscapes and contemporary rural scenes, people, and anything that captures his interest.
Always the student of life, he continually strives to grow at his art, often tackling subject matter that challenges him in different ways, whether by altering lighting or color choice, or composition.
Bruce feels the best way to create a given painting with feeling and passion is through experiencing the subjects from life - the wind blowing, getting caught in a rainstorm, feeling the surroundings of nature. The result will bear a unique sense of not only the place but of the artist's experience.
Education
B.S. Poultry Science California Polytechnic State University, June 1988
(Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA)
Artist's Network University
Continued Fine Art studies, 2004 to current
Member of Ojai Studio Artist (OSA)
Always the student of life, he continually strives to grow at his art, often tackling subject matter that challenges him in different ways, whether by altering lighting or color choice, or composition.
Bruce feels the best way to create a given painting with feeling and passion is through experiencing the subjects from life - the wind blowing, getting caught in a rainstorm, feeling the surroundings of nature. The result will bear a unique sense of not only the place but of the artist's experience.
Education
B.S. Poultry Science California Polytechnic State University, June 1988
(Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA)
Artist's Network University
Continued Fine Art studies, 2004 to current
Member of Ojai Studio Artist (OSA)
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