Gilbert Jordan
Gil's interests center on the arts, and his academic career
reflects this bias. He obtained a degree in music from the
University of Conn., went on to graduate school with the
intention of teaching. Instead he took a 18 year detour in the
world of business, the last 14 at the former Bank of LeRoy, but
finally decided that there had to be something more to life then
mortgages and auto loans. Resuming his education at SUNY,
Geneseo, he earned an M.A. degree in English. The next 15 years
were spent teaching composition and literature at Monroe
Community College and devoting summers to a favorite hobby,
painting in watercolor. Now retired, he lives on a farm in
Wyoming, New York, with his wife Joyce.
His first watercolor workshop was in 1979, and he has averaged
one each year since that time, studying in Maine, Vermont, and in
the Catskills with such artists as Claude Croney, Skip Lawrence,
and Bob Wade. He has had many one man shows in the Western New
York area and holds membership in the
Batavia Society of Artists,
Rochester Art Club, and the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.
While his goal is to paint a perfect landscape, he realizes that
such an event is about as elusive as catching a falling star or
walking to the horizon. According to him, "No matter how great
the skill, it can never advance as fast or as far as desire to be
better."
Summer Morning
Watercolor, ©1998
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