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ROCKY HAWKINS (1950 - )

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ROCKY HAWKINS (1950 - )
ROCKY HAWKINS (1950 - )
Lone Walker
Oil on Panel, 16" x 20"
signed lower left
Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, WA, and grew up in a
small town near the Cascade Mountains. His interest in the mystery and
spiritual element of Indian culture began with childhood, Traveling with
his family to historic locations that conveyed Native American history,
he was taken with the beauty and mysticism of the Indian's individual
expression. After finishing high school, he enrolled in college art classes,
then later attended the Burnley School of Art in Seattle, WA. His career
began with illustration and commercial art, but he found it didn't
fulfill his creative need and desire for self-expression. This realization
led to his introduction into the world of fine art painting. His search to
connect closely with Native American inspiration has led him to reside
in Montana. "I paint with passion, risk and abbreviated images instead
of capturing realism. Set against transit texture and vivid color, images
and figures cannot be situated in reality. These painterly expressions
challenge our emotions and communicate with our sense of mystery.
Mystery is a part of life. Not everything is easily explainable". Many of
the paintings seem to hold passageways detectable only at particular
distances. Where you go, what you see, depends on why you are!