John Moyers
John Moyers grew up
in an artistic environment in New Mexico and could count on his first role
model, his father, the well-known painter and illustrator William Moyers. That
early tutoring and encouragement set the stage for a number of academic
experiences that have given Moyers a passionate desire to paint the beauty and
serenity of nature.
Moyers, and his artist wife, Terri Kelly Moyers, both consider 1979 a turning
point in their approach to art. Moyers had been working in animation studios in
California, but had decided to devote his career to fine art. He went to the
Okanagan Game Farm in Penticon, British Columbia, to study game and paint from
real life. While there, he also met his future wife.
They studied there for five years and both said, in an article in Southwest Art,
“The experience was exactly what we needed. We had attended art schools where
the emphasis was not on traditional academic studies but on painting abstractly.
The time-honored techniques of color and value and working outdoors from life
had to be discovered anew at the game farm. Everyone there was united in his or
her view of good art”.
Moyers and his wife have studied with some of the most superb artists in this
country and Canada, including Robert Lougheed, J. Noel Tucker, and Ramon Froman.
Moyers also has studied at the California Institute for the Arts and the Laguna
Beach School of Art.
In 1994, Moyers was elected to the Cowboy Artists of America and won a Silver
Medal in 1996, and a Gold Medal in Oil and Best of Show in 1997.
John won the Gold Medal for Oil Paintings at the Cowboy Artists of America show
in Phoenix in October 2003. During the same show, he also won the Kieckhefer
Award: Best of Show, which is chosen from the four Gold Medal Winners.
John has been elected Vice President of the Cowboy Artists of America,
which was formed in 1965 to perpetuate the memory and culture of the West in the
tradition of the late Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. The CAA strives to
ensure authentic representatives of the life of the West and to maintain
standards of quality in contemporary Western Art.
Moyers says, “My goal as an impressionist is to communicate a subject
realistically. I am trying to suggest the subject’s appearance by infusing it
with feeling and drawing upon the imagination of the viewer for its
interpretation.”
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