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John Moyers Biography
John Moyers grew up in an artistic environment in New Mexico and could count as 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 consider 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 Penticton, 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 school 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 2001, a Gold Medal in Oil and Best of Show in 1997, and the CAA Award in 2000.
In 2002, he was among four artists selected to participate in the annual Rendezvous at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A profile on Moyers in the January/February 2001 issue of Art of the West, described Moyers as "modest" and said his painting style has remained somewhat constant. "Maybe I'm a little more polished," Moyers notes. "I hope people like what I do. I just try to paint. I try to make the values and colors as true to life as I can."
Selected Awards:
2012
Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OK
2009
Stetson CA Award (Artists Choice Award), Cowboy Artists of America, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OK
Gold Medal Oil "The Judgement", Cowboy Artists of America, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OK
2008
Gold Medal Oil "The Shadow of Doubt" , Cowboy Artists of America, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OK