FRED MASON - BFA University of Utah; School of Visual Arts; Art Students’ League; New York University; Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts. Taught drawing at New Design Centre, Danbury, CT and at Kimball Art Center’s Summer Art Institute, Park City, Utah, 1996-1997. On Advisory Board of College of Fine Arts, University of Utah.
"As a portrait artist I prefer teaching intermediate to advanced students in the art of drawing and painting the figure and portrait. I feel that my job is to:
(1) help the students to see better.
(2) increase their ability to translate their vision from the live model to the
sketch pad or canvas.
(3) nurture each individual's creative thinking and skills to express his or her own ideas.
The class environment is high energy and stimulating, and offers the opportunity to draw and paint the best professional models working in our area. The students learn a lot from each other, and I learn a lot from my students.
In my own personal work, I continue to travel and paint commissions from Boston and New York to Salt Lake and Los Angeles. The portraits include corporate executives, education leaders and others, as well as their wives, children, dogs and horses."