{"id":2749,"date":"2015-03-05T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=2749"},"modified":"2015-03-17T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:43:48","slug":"wayne-branch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=2749","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne D. Branch was born in Renton, Washington, April 19, 1968. \u00a0As a boy he loved building model airplanes and ships, dreaming one day to become a fighter pilot.\u00a0 When he was fourteen, a family friend took him up in a small plane for his first flight.\u00a0 He changed his mind about a flying career when he became airsick, and although no one realized it at the time, it was an early symptom of the illness coming to ravage his life.\u00a0 He dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen but continued to pursue his education to the best of his abilities, while struggling with his yet undiagnosed illness.<\/p>\n

Wayne announced boldly at the age of sixteen that he would “be a painter” and commenced to self-teach his craft of oil painting over the course of many years in the extremely lonely life of one suffering with mental illness.\u00a0 In his early twenties, some years were devoted to linoleum print-making and surviving pieces are quite unique.<\/p>\n

Through countless hospital stays and supervised care,\u00a0he has remained focused on his painting\u00a0and has understood that many painters suffer mental illness and the discouragements of\u00a0a disapproving society.<\/p>\n

Wayne’s philosophy of art is pure…\u00a0 not for money, not for conformity and\u00a0not for non-conformity.\u00a0 It\u2019s just paint on a canvas, applied by a man who paints. As he copes with his fragmented mind, pulling himself closer and closer to reality, the paintings also begin to pull together.\u00a0 From the very early abstractions and jumbles, to the ordered and bright images he is doing today. \u00a0Through his painting he studies himself, his mind, and his sanity.
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\n<\/em>Wayne now lives quietly at his boyhood home with his mother in Phoenix.\u00a0 Family members keep up the supply of oils, brushes and canvases.\u00a0 He has created a weekly routine of sketching on Friday, transferring to canvas on Saturday, and painting while smoking a cigar on Sunday. He has at least 1300 documented paintings as of the end of 2014, spanning nearly 31 years.<\/p>\n

Watch <\/a>a rare video of Wayne painting.<\/p>\n

Read <\/a>an article covered by an Arizona news station.<\/p>\n

For more information please contact:<\/p>\n

Billy Branch
\nPhone: \u00a0602-316-6076
\nWebsite:\u00a0 <\/em>waynespaintings.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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