Bank Rock Bay, Central Park Painting

ROY OWSLEY BIO Roy Owsley has been an NYC/Catskills-based visual artist for over 40 years, recognized for his “poetic” land and seascape paintings, as well as for his expertise as a biophilic designer of edgy urban (living) landscapes in the Northeast United States. Although he has adopted a New York sensibility, much of Roy’s paintings are informed by his childhood initiation on his family farm in rural Kentucky – There, he learned to respect and appreciate nature in all her majesty and beauty. Owsley received a formal education in the theatre, working professionally as an actor in that medium for over a decade, only later to discover that his true calling was to draw and paint, and that he preferred to use and manipulate that paint to breath life and energy into what he sees and experiences in the natural world. Nature is also communicated by Owsley in a more fantastical manner through what he describes as his series of “Dreamscapes”. Among his dreamscapes is the common theme of cattle grazing under a pink sky, awash with misty moonlight. Roy Owsley’s paintings have been featured in numerous art galleries, public and private collections and venues throughout the USA, UK and Canada, including Saatchi & Saatchi, Macy’s Herald Square, Bank of America Prime Brokerage, Sun Microsystems, and a solo show sponsored by Hugo Boss in their former concept store, located in NYC’s iconic Meatpacking district. Education: BA, Theatre/Communication, WKU, 1980.