Award winning painter Monte Rogers is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 30 years he supported his family as a commercial freelance illustrator of books, magazines and advertisements. Monte also taught figure drawing and picture making at the California Art Institute.He began showing and selling his paintings at art shows and galleries and his sell-out shows allowed him to abandon his career as an illustrator and devote full time to doing paintings of his own choosing.
Regarded as a Western artist, Monte's cumulative work shows the influence of a childhood spent in Oregon's Hood River Valley and California's central coast. In subjects from rodeos to amusement parks and beaches, his paintings reflect the West Coast style infused with a "plein air" approach to light-filled images made up of full-intensity paint applied in boldly expressive, unblended strokes of color.
Monte's paintings can be found in private and corporate collections. Residing on the southern Oregon coast, he enjoys a following in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.Monte Rogers can be contacted at:
monterogers@charter.net
