Don Ward graduated with
honors from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles,
California in 1973. He has resided in Taos, New Mexico since
1985. After a career in freelance illustration and outdoor-pictorial
advertising in Los Angeles, he decided to pursue the life
of a "fine artist." Don is represented in galleries
throughout the southwest. He has instructed both portraiture
and landscape painting classes for the University of New Mexico,
Taos and has done numerous "plein-air" workshops
for the Taos Institute of Art, Scottsdale Artists School and
the Fredericksberg Artists School, among others. Since 1987
he has also held a weekly figure drawing group that is attended
by many local artists.
Besides teaching and painting around the
Taos area, Don enjoys going on painting trips in his specially
designed mobile painting studio.
"Painting nature from life, for me,
is the ultimate experience. It's like the excitement a musician
feels when playing "live." Nature is the foil that
I can react to and interpret. Painting is a performance of
how we see and react to what is around us. Hopefully my work
brings to the viewer the visual experience of the moment and
is something more than just a picture. And, that after years
of "plein-air" painting, I can bring into my studio
the same quality of life to my larger pieces."
Gallery Representation
Shows and Exhibitions
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- Taos Traditions Gallery, 1998- two person show
- Taos Gallery, 1995- two person show Taos Gallery, 1997- solo show
- Taos Invites Taos- 1995, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01,
02
- Taos Art Association- various shows
- Jane Hamilton Fine Art, Tucson, AZ, 2000, 2001-
three person show
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