Please join the Seabrook Island Artist Guild for a reception to meet Bob
and view his work on Tuesday, February 6, from 4:30 pm-6:00 pm at
The Lake House.
Bob LeFevre, a resident of Seabrook Island and Salem, South
Carolina, retired from a successful career in business at the age of 55
to pursue his passion of oil painting. Since he was a child, he loved the
water and everything related to it. It was natural that his paintings
from the beginning would depict scenes of life on and near the oceans
and lakes he would visit throughout his life.
Bob’s painting career began when, at the urging of his 4th grade
teachers, he was enrolled in private art classes. At this early
age, he began to develop his perceptual skills as an artist, learning the
fundamentals of rendering and depiction of values in a representational
way.
Throughout his elementary and high school days, Bob continued his
private lessons. He joined every art club and organization he could and
began winning awards for his talents. One of these was a sculpture
scholarship at a local academy. He enjoys sculpting and carving to this
day.
At the age of eighteen, Bob took private lessons from a retired sea
captain in Cape Cod, MA where he painted his first clipper ship. It
was at this moment in his life that his passion for painting scenes of
the sea was born.
Bob attended Colgate University where majored in business taking art as a
second major. He earned extra money drawing caricatures of his
classmates and selling paintings to teachers and the local townspeople.
Following graduation, Bob elected to pursue a business career knowing
that he would eventually return to art on a full-time basis. After 33
years as an executive with Procter and Gamble, PepsiCo and as an owner
of The United States Playing Card Co., he retired to pursue his
dream of painting full time.
He is driven to continually develop his skills to a higher level through
life drawing lessons including nine years at the Art Academy of
Cincinnati, plein air workshops and also by teaching both drawing and
painting classes to teenagers and adults.
Bob has been giving weekly individual and group art lessons to several
Seabrook, Kiawah and Johns Island artists for over 14 years. He always
welcomes new participants. If you are interested in lessons, please
contact Bob at rodory@gmail.com or 513-237-4757.
Bob maintains studios at his Seabrook Island and Salem, SC homes. He was
President of Seabrook Island Guild with over 100 members. He was
represented by the Spencer Art Galleries in Charleston and now maintains
a gallery at his home on Seabrook Island.
More information about the Seabrook Island Artist Guild can be found by clicking here.
-Submitted by Bonnie Younginer, Seabrook Island Artist Guild
(Image credit: Bob LeFevre)