This Month's Artist: TJ Owens & Soroush
Exhibition by TJ Owens & Soroush
TJ Owens 
TJ Owens 
Soroush
Soroush
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.
Soroush was born in the Middle East and raised in England. He attended university and raised a family in California. Soroush retired after 35 years of work as a Special Educator in the fields of Mental Health and Corrections. He has been a photography hobbyist for the past 40 years and is now developing and displaying his photographic skills on a professional level. In his photography, Soroush focuses on form and color. He asks himself "what was it that made me take a second look?" He then tries to capture that feeling in his images. His subjects range from the natural to the artificial, from the close detail to the grand scale. His images are available in all sizes and forms from greeting cards to large gallery wrapped canvasses. The fine photography of Soroush reflects the diversity of life, light and form.
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