Walter Lynn Mosley realism artist
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
has studied with several well known and noted instructors including Frank Mason - at the Art Students League of New York and privatley in Vermont - Maynard Stewart - at San Jose State University where he earned a B. A. in Fine Art - and Bob Gerbracht - privatley in San Jose, California.
Walter shows his work at Owl 57 Gallery in Woodmere, NY, BirdsNest Gallery in Bar Harbor, Maine, and in various east coast galleries. He has exhibited with the American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of
America, Audubon Artists and was accepted into the Greenhouse Gallery of Art ¹s International Salon for the past two years. He won the Philip Isenberg Award as a junior member of the Salmagundi club, received an award at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition last year and recently won an award at a plein air paint out event sponsored by Portage Hill Gallery in Westfield, NY. In addition to membership with the Salmagundi Club he is a signature member of the Plein Air Painters of New York and a Life Member of the Art Students League of New York.
" I look to nature for inspiration and strive to express the divine glory that I see and feel all around me. I go directly to the source and paint from life.
- Walter Lynn Mosley"
OALA interview
How you discover yourself in art world as an artist and what is art to you?
- Art is my passion and love. I simply have to do it, to participate, interact with the beauty around me.
Have you been to a formal school to study arts?
- I went to the Art Students League of New York.
What is your favorite medium and how the process relates to you?
- Oil is my medium. I enjoy becoming familiar and comfortable with my tools, which only happens over a long period of time of consistently honing one's craft.
Have you been working on art series project?
- I haven't been working on a series per say. However, often I start a painting with particular objects in a still life, or a certain location in landscape painting, I might continue doing similar paintings in the same vein. It's becoming familiar with something that adds depth, understanding and allows one to improve.
As a living artist, tell us why should art collectors & art buyers to purchase directly from the living artist store
- Collectors should purchase from the Living Artists Store Gallery so they can be closer to dealing with the artist, perhaps asking questions and so forth. I can be reached by e-mail at wlmosley@earthlink.net; Please put OALA in the subject line to insure the e-mail doesn't get overlooked.
If you were to choose yourself as an insect character what will you be and why?
- If I were to choose what insect I would be, I would say an ant. Because I'm a consistent hard worker going about my tasks, with my antenea buzzing around and trying to avoid obstacles in my path.
Tell us your goal for this year 2006.
- My goal for 2006 is to get into big national exhibitions so I can expand my reputation.
