Terry Widener
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Biography
I have always been fascinated with the visual arts. Drawings, paintings, movies. I'm sure that led me to a serious study of art beginning with private art lessons while I was in middle school. These lessons of charcoal drawing, pastels and oil painting gave me a good foundation. High school art was three years of graphic design which carried over to college. I majored in graphic design at the University of Tulsa, earned my BFA and began working at a design studio. As much as I liked graphic design, there was something appealing about illustration. I would often include an illustration in my design work. But I had a dream to someday illustrate posters or have my paintings in magazines like all of the illustrators I admired in the '60's and '70's.
After working several years in the graphic design field I got the opportunity in 1979 to attend the Illustrators Workshop. A three week workshop whose faculty included most of the illustrator's whose work I so admired. It was here that I was introduced to the works of the Golden Age illustrators and visited the studios of two of the Workshop faculty, Bernie Fuchs and Bob Peak. With encouragement from Bernie Fuchs and Alan E. Cober I began my freelance illustration career. From 1981 until 2018 my clients were editorial, corporate, over thirty children's picture books and advertising. Much of my illustration work is in the collections of national and international corporations, private collectors, and museums. I was fortunate to receive numerous awards and recognitions through the years as an illustrator.
In 2018 I retired from illustration and returned to studio and plein air painting. After being an illustrator for over forty years and working on so many different assignments I like painting a variety of subjects. But being born and raised in Oklahoma and familiar with the Native American culture, I especially enjoy making art with Native American themes.
I am an Associate Member of OPA, an Associate Member of NOAPS and a Signature Member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters. To add to my experience and growth as an artist I studied plein air with Bill Cramer at Grand Canyon in 2018 and with Charlie Hunter in the Texas Hill Country in 2022.
I live with my wife, Leslie, in our 1912 farm house in McKinney, Texas.
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