This immigrant to America: So Lucky to live & paint upon her Sacred Ground
Bachelor of Art '87- Montana State U.
"Outstanding Art Student" by vote of the Art Faculty
MSU Bozeman, MT
email: draw@reggienorbury.art
My first painting/an evening course:
My Inspiration:
My Inspiration:
Stacked timber products in a pallet shop for 1 1/2 years after dropping out of Engineering at MSU
The School was refuge for surviving.
A few years later and scars still fresh when this picture was taken.
Aware by now that the fellow who knocked on my bunk room at the Red Rose Motel in Maybelle, CO and walked in saying, "Look Son! That was a heck of a thing you went thru today"
My Inspiration:
My Inspiration:
My Inspiration:
When I discovered I could draw at 19, I saw a very beautiful, somewhat animated style of line in my work. I love it: Yet know not where it came from.
At Montana State University,
the Art Department taught Modern Expressionist Art.
A lot of theory.
Not one instructor gave me 1- 1 instruction in painting. Not on how to mix. How to apply. How to blend. The importance of edges.
My Road
My Inspiration:
My Road
Above a new wine bar being built below. This ceiling I was painting. The ceiling my canvas. A sky & clouds. On a homemade ladder. Surrounded by Taiwanese craftsmen.
The Lady I was painting for a grad of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her fathers' Lions Club International plaque visible in the homes lobby. Signing the sky mural I boarded a train south from Chungwa.