James
W. Bruce
Artist Biography
"Dreams of Bygone Glories",
oil
24" x 20" $3000 SOLD
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"Waiting", oil
24" x 18" $2500 |
"The Last Samurai",
oil
20" x 20", $2500 SOLD |
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"The Party's Over", oil
30" x 24" $3500 |
"Maria's Pot & Granny Smiths", oil
8" x 10" $950 |
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"Along the Gallatin River II",
oil
14" x 14" $1450
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"Copper and Japonica",
oil
12" x 16" $1450 |
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"Escondido Solitude",
oil
10" x 12" $1150 |
"North of Taos", oil
16" x 20" $1750 |
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Artist Biography
Jim Bruce
has painted most of his 65 years. He started art lessons
in Ardmore, Oklahoma when he fourteen, studying with
Faye Burnett Baker, a prominent local artist. But the
real love for art started a year or so later when he
took a summer workshop from noted Oklahoma artist, Richard
V. Goetz. Becoming a lifelong friend and mentor, Goetz
instilled in Jim a love for still life painting and
color. "Dick taught me basically how to see-how
to see color and the beauty of putting objects together
in harmony and design to create the overall mood I wanted
to achieve. The focus on 'painting what you see' which
Dick engendered has always set the creative tone for
me."
Art became the means for "nourishing
the soul" and banking became the life work. With
a focus on developing his own style, Jim has also
studied with a number of nationally recognized artists
besides Goetz, including Henry Hensche, Kevin Macpherson,
Scott Christensen, David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw, John
Budicin, Marlin Linville and George Stirkland.
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