ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - JAMES CAMPBELL

James Campbell was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where the change in seasons in uniquely beautiful. Like his famous namesake, sociologist Joseph Campbell, artist James Campbell endorses the axiom follow your bliss.

Whether it's hiking in the great outdoors or working at his easel, Campbell likes to feel the expansiveness of unlimited possibilities, and expresses this in his work with a bold, vibrant colour palette and a complexity of imagery and detail that rivals any on the contemporary scene.

Campbell is a self-taught artist, believing that life's experience is the best teacher an artist can have. His creative influences are Keith Haring, Rembrandt, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Hartley and John Douglas. Campbell is intrigued by the time of folktales and myth. Artists are storytellers, creating legends and dreams.

Campbell enjoys dancing, comparative religion studies, skiing and hiking. Do what you love, the artist maintains, from dancing to putting paint on canvas, what you feel shows...if you feel joy, you want others to see it.

VIEW JAMES CAMPBELL COLLECTION

• Waterhouse, John William
• Grimshaw, John Atkinson
• Leighton, Edmund Blair
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
• Hughes, Edward Robert
• Moore, Albert Joseph
• Burne-Jones, Sir Edward
• Millais, John Everett
• Watts, George Frederick
• Richards, William Trost