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 Roy Purcell
BIOGRAPHY
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Roy Purcell is the essential Journeyer,
seeking from birth and from time immemorial to explore and to
understand his journey as it reflects our own. Having early
opened the door through word and image into the depths of his own
subconscious and tapping into that endless reserve of the collective
memory of man, his curiosity and energy have lead him on a
fascinating journey through the world, it's history, it's beauty and
it's destiny.
His work reminds us of
the mysticism of William Blake, the mastery of Michael Angelo, and
the passion of Vincent Van Gogh. Gifts he uses with deep
insight and compassion from the perspective of the ages, yet
with the poignancy of our own time and needs.
He grew up a shy,
sensitive boy in a small rural community of central Utah's Wasatch
Range where the mountains cradled him and the vastness of the
western deserts beckoned his spirit. He was drawn into that
desert as a young man where the mystical qualities of his own nature
were nurtured. Bowing to the will of his own cultural
background he married and raised a family, studied extensively,
sought the desert solitude where he learned to listen to those inner
voices, became an historian (he was director of two regional history
museums where he used his insights and talents to interpret history
through exhibits, murals and writings) and finally (since 1974) went
free lance as a professional artist.
He became well known
regionally for his poignant etchings of Western ghost towns and
landscapes. His interest in etchings and engravings led him
into worldwide projects culminating in the production if the world's
largest intagilo prints. He then retreated from public life to
focus on personal and spiritual growth, and the development and
mastery if various painting styles and techniques. His vision
and insights are expressed eloquently in pastels, watercolors,
acrylics, oils, etchings, engravings, bronzes, and poetry, and seem
to find their most profound expressions in portfolios of artworks on
themes from history and religious to the natural world.
Fortunately for the rest
of us, his driving need to express that which he has perceived, felt
and heard (from the outside and from within) has left a legacy of
beauty and understanding which marks him as a pertinent voice for
our times. His work brings to us a clearer vision of the
continuum of our past, present and future. From his pen and
from his brush comes a multi-dimensional statement spoken with a
sensitivity and beauty rarely seen in the annals of creativity. |
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