Moab Art Works - R. Geoffrey Blackburn - So Much Red Rock

Opens Saturday August 30 6-9 pm - R.Geoffrey Blackburn returns to Moab Art Works with more of his ultra-realist paintings. The show includes recent paintings of Zion National Park along with several works inspired by his time as a uranium prospector in Moab, Utah "Spaced Miners".

Born in Utah in the late 1940's, R. Geoffrey Blackburn has been drawing and painting since he was a child. Although he studied art both privately and at the University of Utah, he is mostly self-taught. He began his professional art career in 1970 and has created art, taught art and worked in various art-related fields his entire professional life.

”I have always been fascinated by the incredible diversity and often unearthly beauty of western landscapes. I have crawled over the mountains and deserts staking mining claims and prospecting for gold, silver and uranium. I have also been a ski racer and a ski instructor and so I am enamored with both alpine and desert landscapes in all seasons. Some of my earliest paintings were of lakes and mountains, prospectors, cowboys and skiers (the latter, usually rendered in electric colors). But when I first visited Moab, Canyonlands and Arches (in Utah), I was truly smitten! The geological marvels I encountered there just blew me away! I could have been on another planet! While my friends were wearing suits hunkered down in offices, I was lucky enough to spend more than a decade prospecting and exploring in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho." - R. Geoffrey Blackburn


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R. Geoffrey Blackburn	"So Much Red Rock - So Little Time" by R. Geoffrey Blackburn Opens Saturday August 30 6-9 pm - R.Geoffrey Blackburn returns to Moab Art Works with more of his ultra-realist paintings. The show includes recent paintings of Zion National Park along with several works inspired by his time as a uranium prospector in Moab, Utah "Spaced Miners". Born in Utah in the late 1940's, R. Geoffrey Blackburn has been drawing and painting since he was a child. Although he studied art both privately and at the University of Utah, he is mostly self-taught. He began his professional art career in 1970 and has created art, taught art and worked in various art-related fields his entire professional life. ”I have always been fascinated by the incredible diversity and often unearthly beauty of western landscapes. I have crawled over the mountains and deserts staking mining claims and prospecting for gold, silver and uranium. I have also been a ski racer and a ski instructor and so I am enamored with both alpine and desert landscapes in all seasons. Some of my earliest paintings were of lakes and mountains, prospectors, cowboys and skiers (the latter, usually rendered in electric colors). But when I first visited Moab, Canyonlands and Arches (in Utah), I was truly smitten! The geological marvels I encountered there just blew me away! I could have been on another planet! While my friends were wearing suits hunkered down in offices, I was lucky enough to spend more than a decade prospecting and exploring in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho." - R. Geoffrey Blackburn
Homesick Miners by R. Geoffrey Blackburn	The artist's reception takes place on Saturday August 30th at 6pm. The exhibition is free and open to all. For more details about this show and other exhibits contact Moab Art Works at (435) 259-3010. The Art of R. Geoffrey Blackburn See items in our store from R. Geoffrey Blackburn

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"So Much Red Rock - So Little Time"

by R. Geoffrey Blackburn