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FEATURED ARTIST

2023 BAYOU CITY ART FESTIVAL
MEMORIAL PARK FEATURED ARTIST

The Art Colony Association, Inc. is proud to announce Dewey James as the Featured Artist for the 2023 Bayou City Art Festival - Memorial Park. James has worked in many different mediums including batik, watercolor, and hand-tinting black and white photography.

FEATURED ARTIST
MEMORIAL PARK 2023
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FROM THE ARTIST:

  • About: "My art has spanned my lifetime. I began doing batik and watercolor, then hand-tinting black and white photography. I worked as a restoration artist, restoring medieval castles in southern France and spent my free time traveling across Europe, photographing slices of country life and encapsulating vignettes of the continent’s astounding natural beauty." 

  • Technique: "I compose in Photoshop using photography and graphic images and patterns and transfer the result onto hand-painted birch panels. I craft the panels into a handmade shadowbox frame. My technique found success, not only regionally but around the country. We travel nationwide pulling a camper, selling my work at art fairs or placing them in galleries or installations. My pieces have been displayed in numerous restaurants, billboards, businesses and corporations and I have been featured in several city magazines and newspapers and interviewed on television and social media."

  • Current Inspiration: "My latest iteration allows me to express myself more than ever before – swashes and patterned backgrounds embedded with provocative and editorial imagery. Women bedecked in tall hats in a roomful of curios or a cryptic glance from a mystic jackrabbit in a cloud of multicolored fireflies". 

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Featured Artist Downtown 2022