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MORGAN WEISTLING
Morgan Weistling began his artistic training on his father’s lap at 19 months of age, where he learned how to draw and more importantly, use his imagination.
Capitalizing on his father’s talent for telling a story in comic strip form, Morgan began to develop a sense of narrative in his drawing. “It was here that art became a
language for me.”
At the age of 12, Morgan applied his interest in art to studying his father’s art books and began his art school studies at the Brandes
Art
Institute at 15. Working in a
Los Angeles art supply store
while attending art school, Morgan chanced to show his artwork to a prominent illustrator. As a result of
their encounter,
at the age of 19, Weistling found himself employed at a top movie
poster agency in Hollywood. For the next 14 years, Morgan illustrated for every
movie studio in Hollywood. His clients included Universal/Amblin Entertainment, Disney, MGM, Paramount,
20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Columbia
Pictures and TriStar. In addition to movie posters, Weistling created all the cover artwork for the video series, McGee and Me for Focus on the
Family and his art can be seen on numerous magazine, book, CD and video covers as well as Sega pinball machines.
Since he has made fine art the focus of his art career, the collector demand
for his originals has been overwhelming. With his masterful use of oils, Morgan Weistling
brings a scene to life
with spectacular lighting, creating a sense of wonder and engaging the viewer’s
imagination and emotion. His dreamlike images touch the
viewer’s heart,
using more than
sentimentality to engage the viewer. His canvases are filled with brushwork that tells a story beyond the subject matter. Like a skilled
movie
director, he manipulates the focus of interest
with suggestions and impressions of forms that are barely realized and allow the viewer’s imagination to fill in the details.
“There is a story underneath the story of my paintings,” Morgan adds,“I don’t hide the process of how I painted it. You can see the layers and count the strokes it took
to get there. With some styles of painting, the closer you get to the canvas,
the more you will see. With mine, the more you step back, the more detail you will see. That’s not
easy, which is why it fascinates me.” Morgan Weistling follows in the footsteps of the
masters he admires, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Nicolai Fechin as well as
many others. In all of his vibrant work, from western art to feminine forms, Weistling crafts a narrative,
driven by clarity, focus and purpose, drawing on images inspired
by his beliefs and scenes from daily life. “My hope is that people will enjoy viewing my artwork as much I enjoyed painting it.
For me, art is my language used to communicate to others how I see God’s creation. When I experience another artist’s work, I love to see through their eyes and find
out as much about the
artist as the subject they painted. That is what makes art so interesting.” Weistling, a highly sought-after teacher, conducts private workshops
with juried
students and teaches at the
prestigious Scottsdale Artist School. Recent honors and awards include the Patron’s Choice Award and the Trustees Purchase
Award
at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage
in Los Angeles, CA, the Prix de West Purchase Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in
Oklahoma City, OK, and the Patron's Choice Award at the
Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Weistling's book, The Image of Christ, was a finalist for the Evangelical
Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book Award.
Weistling met his wife, JoAnn, in art school. Their daughter is often a model in Weistling’s paintings.
They make their home in California.
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