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 Chick Curtis
considers his education to be the woods and creek in his backyard
in Virginia when he was a kid, living in Costa Rica, visiting
Thailand, reveling in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, traveling
around the world, graduating from the University of Virginia, VA,
serving in the U..S. Air Force, running a restaurant, graduating
from Cal State San Bernardino with an MA in educational
counseling, and being married twice and humbly rearing two boys,
each brighter than him.
Chick is a mostly self-taught artist. His mother, Dorothy
Fromm Curtis was an accomplished artist whose award winning oil
and pastel portraits have been shown national and internationally.
She tried to teach Chick, but, admittedly, he wasn’t her best
student. He stopped drawing altogether for 30 years until he heard
the “Calling” on his own. He has been painting and drawing since
1993.
Chick describes his art as follows, “Having entered the
art-making world at mid-life, I have attempted a variety of media
and styles at warp speed. Not so much because I want to make up
for lost time, but because I find my desire to make art
unquenchable. I have an intuitive child-like curiosity to explore,
which compliments the maturity and skill I have developed as an
adult. This gives me the freedom to explore many different styles
and techniques. My wish is to interpret the world around me and
all its many facets in a way that becomes part history, part
beauty, part intrigue, and part joy. I am drawn with equal
intensity to landscapes and people because of the spiritual
quality of being in nature and to people because of the complexity
of human nature.”
Artist Picture by: Michael J. Elderman
Orange Picture by:
Carla Conti Bender |
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