Bob Farrell

Artist

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One Washington Street, Suite 1177
Dover, NH 03820

My name is Bob Farrell and I’m an artist. I’m 52 years old and live in Berwick Maine. My wife’s name is Jenifer and we have a son named Ryan and a daughter named Krista.

When I was young, I started doing lettering and graphics. I designed a few new fonts and I created a lot of designs. When I got older, I started painting with oils. I did abstract and surreal paintings. Dali was a big influence.

While I was going to Jefferson Community College in Watertown, NY, I was the Art Assistant for Klaus Ebling, art teacher. We did murals for an Irish festival and we went to Milwaukee to compete in a snow sculpting competition. After a year and a half at JCC, I transferred to the School of Visual Arts in NYC for graphic design. It was hard to work and go to school so I had to quit after the first semester.

While in New York City, I still painted abstracts and surreals. I also learned how to mix urethanes. I bought a 35mm camera and took black and white photos. I went to Coney Island a lot and all over NYC, even to the World Trade Center. I learned how to develop film and I printed my own photos. I also started to overlap negatives for pictures.

I worked for Traditional Line Ltd. for 5 years when I was in NYC. It was an Architectural Restoration company. We went for 6 weeks to Santa Barbara, California and worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum. We took apart two period rooms from the old museum to be re-installed into the new museum. What was weird is that when we took lunch, we had to tie everything we took apart down in case there was an earthquake.

While in NYC, I lived above the Pyramid Club. I lived with 5 others and we had a 4000 square foot living room. Larry called it “Café Nico” and he had monthly poetry readings. I would display my art there and I started to do sculptures. I also read some of my poems.

I met my wife Jenifer in NYC. We moved towards Syracuse New York and I stopped doing art. Then we moved to New Hampshire.

Early in 2013, I saw a profile picture on Facebook of my friend Mark Traeger at an art gallery. I asked him where he was and he told me he was at the Artstream gallery. I checked out their website and I sent them 10 pictures of my art. Susan Schwake replied and said she was interested in seeing some of my new art. That gave me the motivation to be creative again and it’s been nonstop.

I’m a member of the Berwick Art Association, MODspoke, Wrong Brain and Blackbird Studio & Gallery. I’ve shown at Gallery at 100 Market St., Artstream, Berwick Library, Gafney Library, Rochester Library, DOO, Buoy, 2nd Landing, East Tower Gallery, and Gallery 280.

Finding and seeing wasted objects sparks a creativity to create art instead of throwing it out.