2023: Announcing
Top Featured Artist
ARTtour International
2023: Announcing
Honorable Mention Award
Circle Foundation For the Arts - Lyon, France
2023 Announcing
HOW.
Life Navigation
for
people who think.
Amazon.Com - Special Price!
Hardback & Paperback available
- Digital Version for less
than a milkhake...
Reviews
2021: Announcing
A new blog post
Pat Harrison
Contemporary
Realism - England
2021: Featured Artist
Contemporary Art Magazine 23
Circle Foundation For the Arts -
Lyon, France

2021: Announcing
A new German Language blog post
English translation via Google
Translator,
available at the bottom of the webpage
2020: Finalist
International Realism Guild 2020 Spring
Salon
2020: Certificate of Excellence
34th Artavita Online Art Exhibition
Art Expo New York
2019: Featured Artist
AERA on TV and Online-TV special
German language TV
2019:
Featured Artist
Circle Quarterlyartreview
Circle Foundation For the Arts - Lyon, France
2019: Honorable Mention
Artist of the Year Award
Circle Foundation For the Arts -
Lyon, France
2019: Announcing a new Video:
Oil painting techniques
and tutorial
with R. Geoffrey Blackburn on Colour In
Your Life
Oil painting techniques and tutorial for beginners or
artists of all ages and skills. In this fine art TV show
episode, R. Geoffrey Blackburn is interviewed by Put Some Colour In Your Life
host and Master Artist, Graeme Stevenson. Now in its
18th season,
Put Some Colour In Your Life is a television
series that spans the globe. Its mission: to build
a library of the minds of artists to preserve a digital
record of creative spirit, culture and techniques for
future generations- Please visit:
https://www.colourinyourlife.com.au/
2018: Winner
Gamblin
Artist Colors Material Award for Landscape in Oil Award
Salmagundi Open Painting Sculpture & Graphics Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, NYC, NY
2018: Finalist
13th Annual Art Renewal Center Salon
(3,750 entries from 69 countries)
Special audio recording:
R. Geoffrey Blackburn tells the
story of "Indian Summer"...

Special audio
recording:
R. Geoffrey Blackburn tells the story of
"Knobs"...
2017: First Prize Winner
Palm Art Award
Qeudlinburg,
Germany
2017 Announcing a new line of fashion:
VIDA
presents the
R. Geoffrey Blackburn Collection
In early 2017 I was approached by a San Francisco Fashion Design, firm VIDA, that had a very cool idea: use various artist's artwork on
ultra high- quality, high-fashion women's apparel manufactured in exotic
locations. Seemed like a winner to me provided the finished product was actually
as awesome as my own art (modesty-be dammed). Ever the O.C.D. skeptic, I
approached this very slowly. I tried a few designs, then I purchased a
couple of things, then couple more and could not believe it! Actually
AWESOME!. Seriously. Check it out.
2016-2017: First Place Special
Recognition Award
Manhatten Arts International "New Beginnings Exhibitions"
2015:
Selected
International Guild of Realism
Masterworks Museum Tour
2014:
Awarded Palm Art Award
Qeudlinburg, Germany
2014 Awarded Best Landscape
International Guild of Realism 9thAnnual Juried Exhibition
at the Robert Lange Studios, Charlston, SC
Featured artist:
American Art Collector (October Edition)
"Beauty in Realism" article (Pgs. 158-160)
2023 - Still vertical...
Why I do Western Landscape and Red Rock Paintings:
Honorable Mention Award
Circle Foundation For the Arts - Lyon, France
2023 Announcing
HOW.
Life Navigation
for
people who think.
Amazon.Com - Special Price!
Hardback & Paperback available
- Digital Version for less
than a milkhake...
Reviews
2021: Announcing
A new blog post
Pat Harrison
Contemporary
Realism - England
2021: Featured Artist
Contemporary Art Magazine 23
Circle Foundation For the Arts -
Lyon, France

2021: Announcing
A new German Language blog post
English translation via Google
Translator,
available at the bottom of the webpage
2020: Finalist
International Realism Guild 2020 Spring
Salon
2020: Certificate of Excellence
34th Artavita Online Art Exhibition
Art Expo New York
2019: Featured Artist
AERA on TV and Online-TV special
German language TV
2019:
Featured Artist
Circle Quarterlyartreview
Circle Foundation For the Arts - Lyon, France
2019: Honorable Mention
Artist of the Year Award
Circle Foundation For the Arts -
Lyon, France
2019: Announcing a new Video:
Oil painting techniques
and tutorial
with R. Geoffrey Blackburn on Colour In
Your Life
Oil painting techniques and tutorial for beginners or artists of all ages and skills. In this fine art TV show episode, R. Geoffrey Blackburn is interviewed by Put Some Colour In Your Life host and Master Artist, Graeme Stevenson. Now in its 18th season, Put Some Colour In Your Life is a television series that spans the globe. Its mission: to build a library of the minds of artists to preserve a digital record of creative spirit, culture and techniques for future generations- Please visit: https://www.colourinyourlife.com.au/
2018: Winner
Gamblin
Artist Colors Material Award for Landscape in Oil Award
Salmagundi Open Painting Sculpture & Graphics Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, NYC, NY
2018: Finalist
13th Annual Art Renewal Center Salon
(3,750 entries from 69 countries)
Special audio recording:
R. Geoffrey Blackburn tells the
story of "Indian Summer"...

Special audio
recording:
R. Geoffrey Blackburn tells the story of
"Knobs"...
2017: First Prize Winner
Palm Art Award
Qeudlinburg,
Germany
2017 Announcing a new line of fashion:
VIDA
presents the
R. Geoffrey Blackburn Collection
|
In early 2017 I was approached by a San Francisco Fashion Design, firm VIDA, that had a very cool idea: use various artist's artwork on ultra high- quality, high-fashion women's apparel manufactured in exotic locations. Seemed like a winner to me provided the finished product was actually as awesome as my own art (modesty-be dammed). Ever the O.C.D. skeptic, I approached this very slowly. I tried a few designs, then I purchased a couple of things, then couple more and could not believe it! Actually AWESOME!. Seriously. Check it out.
2016-2017: First Place Special
Recognition Award
Manhatten Arts International "New Beginnings Exhibitions"
2015:
Selected
International Guild of Realism
Masterworks Museum Tour
2014:
Awarded Palm Art Award
Qeudlinburg, Germany
|
2014 Awarded Best Landscape
International Guild of Realism 9thAnnual Juried Exhibition
at the Robert Lange Studios, Charlston, SC
Featured artist:
American Art Collector (October Edition)
"Beauty in Realism" article (Pgs. 158-160)

2023 - Still vertical...
"I have always been fascinated by the
incredible diversity and often unearthly beauty of the western
United States. I have hiked over various Western mountains and deserts prospecting for gold, silver and uranium. I have
also been a ski racer and a ski instructor and so I am enamored with
both alpine and desert landscapes in all seasons. Some of my
earliest paintings were of lakes and
mountains, prospectors, cowboys and skiers (the latter,
usually rendered in electric colors). But when I first
visited Moab, Canyonlands and Arches (in Utah), I was truly
smitten–artistic juices flowing! The geological marvels I
encountered there just blew me away! I could have been on
another planet! From that point on, Western
landscape paintings particularly, red rock paintings have dominated my art. While my friends were wearing suits hunkered
down in offices, I was lucky enough to spend more than a
decade prospecting and exploring this or that Western landscape
and of course, also producing paintings of many of the
scenes I prospected .
Even as Al Dart, my business partner and I trekked the
outback prospecting, drilling, staking claims
and doing deals,
I also continued with my art, sketching and photographing
along the way. Between forays to our various properties I would
return to my studio and create paintings. If I had a thousand life times, I
could never begin to paint even a fraction of the wonders I have
seen. I was so inspired, that along with the numerous
Western landscape paintings I produced, I even created and patented a new
user-interactive
art form/medium.
This, in an effort to find yet another way to capture some of the
amazing Western landscapes I had experienced. These earliest
efforts focused on red rock themes-incorporating imagery
inspired by from some of my red rock paintings. Since the late
1970's I have focused almost entirely on creating Western landscape
paintings with a strong emphasis on desert and red rock canyon
landscapes from around the Moab area. This area is very
special to me as it is where so much of our
mining property was located and our operations were based. In the last
several years I have
widened my focus to create landscape paintings
of other Western vistas in Arizona and Wyoming.
In my paintings,
I
try to create a scene the way you might remember it as opposed to the way
it really is. I want you to be able to go into the scene and
explore the various spaces–to feel like you are actually there.
I want you to see something new every time you look at
one of my paintings. The tight detail in my work makes this
possible. With looser more "painterly" work, you
are stopped
at the surface of the painting. I tend to use a lot of
glazes that is to say, I paint "thin"– using very little paint, layering thin transparent colors on top
of each other to achieve the desired effect. This approach lets you look into the paint.
I'm a geezer now, so there won't be many more Western landscape paintings flowing out of my brush. As of this writing, I am currently working on the last five of what I had planned on being my last six red rock paintings. Twilight on the Colorado was the first of this last set of red rock landscape paintings completed in Dec. 2013, all started the same week in November 2012. Since it usually takes hundreds of hours to complete one of my paintings it will be no surprise that I don't expect to have the last of them done until late 2015. As I am painting them in rotation- a week or two on this one and then on to the next one and so on, they are all well on the way. After this, I am hoping to explore some other subjects and do some less traditional figurative paintings (unleashing my inner surrealist persona) and get back to working in my "new art form". Along the way, I will also be working on my book, "How" , basically, a creative primer—a step-by-step guide on how to create literally anything. Stay tuned...."
R. Geoffrey Blackburn
Member of :
International Guild of Realism (IGOR)