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 considor 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 apperance by infusing it with feeling and drawing upon the imagination of the viewer for its interpretation.
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