The Art of R. Geoffrey Blackburn

R. Geoffrey Blackburn

Biography: (Short Version)

Born in Utah in the late 1940's, R. Geoffrey Blackburn has been drawing and painting since he was a child. Although he studied art both privately and at the University of Utah, he is mostly self-taught. He began his professional art career in 1970 and has created art, taught art and worked in various art-related fields his entire professional life. While in England, in the early 1970's, he was the principle artist for an international magazine.

In 1987, he invented and later patented a new, user-interactive art form.

His passion for painting Southwest red rock landscapes was born of his involvement in the uranium boom of the 1970’s. During that time, he co-owned and operated a mining and exploration company, North American Resources Corp. operating out of Moab, Utah. He, staked claims, drilled, prospected and promoted uranium properties all over the Colorado Plateau. Living and working in the high desert, he began doing photo studies and sketches of the myriad mind-blowing scenes and turning some of these into paintings. The mining company is long gone, but he still paints the red rock.

Exhibitions

2010 J. Willott Gallery, 5th Annual IGOR Juried Show Feb 8-26 .Won: "Best Landscape Award
2009 PaintAmerica,Mini Top50 Competition, Juried show
2009 Finalist Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition
2009 Paint the Parks, PaintAmerica Juried show
2009 Springville Museum of Art, 85th Annual Spring Salon
'2009 International Art Show

Part I: Realism' Guests Gallery
2008-09 iBiennial of Contemporary Art
2008-09 Saatchi Online Gallery, UK
2008-09 Artbreak
2008 Guests Gallery Work of the New Year
2008 “Small Works North America” Greenwich Workshop, Fairfield, CT
2008 Art Kudos International Competitions
2008 Springville Museum of Art, 84th Annual Spring Salon, Juried Exhibition, Springville, UT
2008 The President's Art Show, SLC, UT
2007 “Small Works North America” Greenwich Workshop, Fairfield, CT
2007 Red Rock in Detail, one-man-show, Moab, UT
2007 Art Expo Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
2007 The West in Detail, Horizon Fine Art, Jackson, WY
2007-Finalist-3rd Annual Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition
2007 9th Annual New Horizons Academy Art Show and Auction, Las Vegas, NV
2006 63rd Annual National Art Exhibit, Cedar City, UT
2006 Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit, Provo, UT
2006 The President's Art Show (the Museum of Utah Art & History)
1997 Springville Museum of Art, 73rd Annual Spring Salon
1996 Springville Museum of Art, 72nd Annual Spring Salon
1995 Springville Museum of Art, 7lst Annual Spring Salon
1995 1994 Springville Museum of Art: Art with a Religious Theme
1975 Springville Museum of Art, 5lst Annual Art Exhibit (Painting reproduced in Catalogue)
1975 Associated Utah Artists Invitational Exhibit
1974 Hilton Hotel Invitational
1974 Deseret News Heritage Art Show
1974 All Utah Art Exhibit (Springville Museum of Art & Utah State Institute of Fine Art)
1960 Art at the Abyss 1960
1956 Old Mission School Art Festival, San Juan Capistrano, CA