This Month's Artist: TJ Owens
TJ started art instruction at the age of five: being told to “stay within the lines” and to “stop outlining” the porky pigs and rabbits especially with contrasting colors!” Something he’s ignored ever since. After completing a “tour” in the US Army, TJ settled in northern California obtaining his BA in Art Education and his MA in Counseling/Psychology. Later, he completed his PhD in Psychology and Public Health/Education. (However, don’t call him Doctor, he prefers TJ) Although TJs figurative works are a bit “edgy” and may be experienced as somewhat provocative raw exaggerations with intense bold colors; his landscapes are more traditional, with even a certain naïveté, much like abstracted colorist compositions in the expressionist style. TJs inspiration is intuitive…reflections of his location in time and space…particularly time he spends in the South of France. There he lives in his Villa Sauvé for half the year, with the influence of Provence intensely reflected in his work.
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