 
| That
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. When he
retired his wife encouraged him to start again and he
now devotes many hours to his rapidly expanding
career. |
| 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 |
| 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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