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guy taking pictures while perched on an
outcropping at the Oregon Zoo, the one
with a special interest in big cats,
just might be Portland
artist, Berle Bledsoe.
Bledsoe,
a self-taught artist, has been painting seriously
for about twelve years His first efforts
were done many years ago, but marriage, raising a
family, and his work as a warehouseman for Unisource
intervened, and soon put art on the back burner. When he
retired his wife encouraged him to start again and
he now devotes many hours to his rapidly
expanding career.
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Berle
is a regular at the Lake Area
Artists show and the Lake Oswego
Festival of the Arts. His work has
been shown at Art Splash in Tualatin
and at shows sponsored by the
Spectrum of the Arts.
Berle prefers working from
photographs and is an expert at
imposing imagination and
impression on reality. His first
love is doing portraits,
both of people and animals. Berle has a unique ability to
see beyond the superficial and
reveal the inner beauty of
his subject, a talent he brings
to both his portraits and to
his wildlife and landscape
works. Many of his works
depicting wild animals are a
result of his frequent trips to
the Zoo.
He measures his success by
whether a person identifies with
his subject and has a good
feeling about It. When someone
looks at his work and feels they
have either been there,
seen it, done it, or felt it,
Berle feels he has done his job
well. He wants viewers to
connect with his art. (Belinki &Duprey
Gallery)
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Art Associations:
Lake Area Artists---Watercolor Society
Of Oregon ---Oregon Society Of Artist
...N.W. Artists Support Group
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| Past and
Present Art Shows:
Lake
Oswego Festival of the
Arts---Black-Stone Wildlife Art
Festival (Eagle Crest Resort) Bend
OR---North
Clackamas Art Guild---Creative
Catalyst Productions---Portland Open
Studios---Art Splash---Beaverton
Arts Commission---Spring Time In The
N.W. (Expo Center)---Legacy
Hospital---St. Vincent
Hospital---Buffalo Grass Art Show
and Sale---Portland Home and Garden
Show---The Artist Show and Sale_ |
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