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.

TV Appearance

• 1985 "Red Canyons" serigraph featured in a  Murder, She Wrote episode

Exhibitions

• 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

Galleries

• 2008 Pinetop Contemporary  Gallery, Pinetop, AZ

• 2008 Old Church Gallery, Springdale, UT

• 2007-08 Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

• 2007 Greenwich Workshop Gallery, Fairfield, CT

• 2007-08 Moab Art Works, Moab UT

• 2006-08 Horizon Fine Art, Jackson, WY

• 2006-08 Art Encounter, Las Vegas NV

• 2005-2006 Stanfield Fine Art, Park City, UT

• 1989-1997 C-Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1996,1986 Old Town Gallery, Park City, UT

• 1990 Liebenson Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1990 Brushworks Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1986 J. Christensen Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1983-84 Fine Arts Gallery, Ardmore, PA

• 1983-84 Windrush Gallery, Sedona, AZ

• 1983-84 Hawkeye, Galleries, Ltd., Aspen, CO

• 1983-84 Aldridge Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

• 1980-90 Winn Galleries, Seattle, WA

• 1975 Jamaica Bay Inn, Marina Del Rey, CA

• 1973 Tivoli Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1973 C'est Bon Hotel, Park City

• 1971-74 Old House Gallery, SLC, UT

• 1971-72 Jail House Gallery, Taos, NM

R. Geoffrey Blackburn

Institution Collections

• Allstate Insurance Company North West Pipeline Company

• LDS Museum of Church History and Art

• Rancher Exploration & Development Corp.

• Hecla Mining Company

• First Security Bank Corporation

Private Collections

• President Ronald Reagan

• Dr. Armand Hammer

• General Alexander Haig, Jr.

• Secretary of Interior, William Clark

• United States Senator, Paul Laxalt

• United States Senator, Orrin Hatch

• United States Senator, Jake Garn

• Governor Norman Bangerter

• Balloonist, Maxie L. Anderson

• Actor/ Director, Robert Redford

Awarded

• 1990 United States Patent # 4972305 described by Springville Museum Director, Dr. Vern G. Swanson as a "new art form."