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                                                                                                Background

                                                                                                            A lifetime love affair with visual fine art best describes my background. In Kindergarten I

won my first award with a sculpture of a cat in a curled up position. From that time forward "Art in all

of its facetsÓ has been my passion.

To make a long story short I have been Senior Art Director at Showacre Coons Shotwell and Adams

Advertising & Public Relation, the largest ad agency in eastern Washington State; Creative Director at

Francis Williams & Johnson Ltd. Advertising & Public Relations Counsel, the largest ad agency in the

Province of Alberta Canada; Communications Manager, Advertising Manager and builder of an internal

advertising agency at Morrison Knudsen Company (an international billion dollar engineering and

construction corporation); the owner of two very creative and art oriented advertising agencies...

Wilkinson Advertising and Marketing, and Wilkinson & Gessel Advertising; and now the owner of

Wilkinson Galleries... an on-line marketplace for my artwork.

                                                                                                            The reason for the explanation of  my advertising career is because of its relationship to fine art

and the community. Maybe more than anyone else in Southern Utah, I know the enormous impact that

visual art can have on the economy of a business, a city, and a community.

                                                                                                            As important as was my advertising career I have taught Fine Art (life drawing and painting, portrait

painting and basic and advanced drawing and painting) at "Weber State University" in Ogden, Utah, and at

two private art schools... "Riverside Art Center" in Riverside, California and "Bertha Eccles Community

Art Center in Ogden, Utah".  I am a member of the Portrait Society of America, The Oil Painters of America,

plus the past Chairman of the Visual Arts Association of St George, Utah and past member of the St George

Arts Commission.

 

Philosophy

                                                                                                            When we consider the infinite variety of action of the human form, its suppleness, grace and strength

of movement in the expression of the fleeting moment, it requires a knowledge of structure, of an understanding

of action and of insight into character to capture the true image.

It has been said, "Like man himself is a subtle merging of mind and matterÓ. The portrait's and life

artists task is to express both at the same time.  By minimizing the discrepancies and magnifying the similarities

between the inner and outer selves, the best artists make an image that shows the two parts merged in harmony."

I believes wholly in this concept... it, like no other, brings an emergence of life to canvas and drawing board. 

Realism is important, but not to a photographic finality. Although I do paint photographically when asked

                                                                                                I prefers the medium's color and texture to speak for itself... brush stroke, contŽ, pencil, wash, etc.

 

Awards – I have listed only a few of the top awards

    Awards - Local

Best of Show - Visual Arts Association Museum Show - Oil - 2007

First Place – Visual Arts Association Annual Invitational Exhibit – Oil - 2007

First Place - Visual Arts Association Annual Invitational Exhibit - Oil - 2006

First Place - Visual Arts Association Annual Invitational Exhibit - Drawing - 2006

 

    Awards - Regional

Best of Show - Art Directors Exhibit - Idaho - 1978

First Place - Art Directors Exhibit - Idaho – 1977

First Place - Writers Guild - Utah - Pencil Portrait - 1970

 

    Awards - National / International

Top Ten Finalists of the International Exhibit for the Grand Opening of the Anilee Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada - 2007, 2008

First Place - International Advertising Exhibit - Alberta, Canada - Event Poster - 1987

First Place - National Illustrators Show - Winnipeg Canada - Line Illustration - 1987

 

    Points of Interest

Appointed Judge of the largest commercial art show in the western United States. - ÒBest of the West.Ó

Named one of the top five illustrators in the Intermountain West.

One of the artists picked for promotion of the Worlds Fair in 1974.

Painted portraits for retiring executives of Bell Telephone, Washington Trust Bank, and many other organization.

Many portraits, paintings and drawings in homes and collections across the United States.

 

 

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