Sam Collett is a portrait, figurative and landscape
painter living in Joseph Oregon. Joseph is in the
northeast corner of the state, and it is a land of vast
and majestic beauty. The mixture of forested
mountains, rural farm and ranches has become his
artistic metaphor. Wallowa County is a constant
source of inspiration; this land and its people are
always an artistic challenge to him.
He received his formal education at Westminster
College studying with Don Doxey followed by study at
graduate program at the University of Utah Art
Department with Albert Handell, Earl Jones and Alvin
Gittins; and again studied with Albert Handell at
Woodstock New York.
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Mr. Collett has more than twenty years of teaching
experience in objective (realism) painting and drawing;
those venues include Salt Lake Art Center UT,
University of Utah, The Kimball Art Center Park City
Utah, Kings Cottage Art School, the Peterson’s Art
center, and workshops at The Crossroads Arts Center
Oregon, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Wallowa Lake
Art Workshops, College of Southern Idaho, Moses
Lake Art Center, Dahmen Barn Union WA. 2010 he
will be teaching at Blue Mountain College Enterprise,
OR, Rogue Gallery Medford OR, College of Southern
Idaho, Dahmen Barn WA, Keizer Art Association
Keizer OR, Emerald Art Association, and Wallowa
Lake Art Workshops.
Sam Collett’s work has been exhibited at the
Salmagundi Club New York, American Pastel Society
New York, Degas Pastel Society New Orleans,
Louisiana, Oil Painters Of America four times, Salon
International Juried Competition at the Green house
Gallery Texas, one person show Kimball Art Center
Park City, Utah, University Of Utah , Boise State
University Idaho, Salt Lake Art Center Utah, one
person show Springville Museum Utah, one person
show Bountiful Arts Center Utah and numerous
galleries.
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