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Birth
1956
Death
Lived/Active
District Of Columbia
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
allegory, figurative drawing
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| F. Lennox Campello studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle under Professors Norman Lundin, Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Everett DuPen and others.
Although he graduated from Washington in 1981, the artist started to sell his work professionally in 1977, when he became one of the regular exhibiting artists at the world famous Pike Place Market. During this period he sold over 3,000 watercolors and his art school assignments.
In that same year that he graduated from Washington, he won the William Whipple National Art Competition First Prize for Printmaking, the silver medal at the Ligoa Duncan Art Competition in Paris and the French "Prix de Peinture de Raymond Duncan," also in Paris.
A frenetic and vocal student who seemed to produce artworks at an incredible pace, as well as organizing exhibitions for other students, Campello was described by Ileana Levens, at the time the director of the Bellevue Museum of Art as the "most powerful student force ever to go through this art school."
Commissioned a naval officer in 1981, the artist moved to Spain, where he worked on a series of landscapes of Andalusia which now hang in over fifty- private collections in Spain, Portugal and the United States.
In 1985, he returned to the United States, living in Monterey, California (while pursuing a Masters degree) and Bowie, Maryland. During this time, he returned to figurative drawings, as well as delivering illustrations for magazines and periodicals.
In 1989, Campello moved to Scotland, where he lived in a 307-year-old farmhouse at the foothills of the Highlands near the ancient Pictish village of Brechin. The rugged character of the Scottish land and his discovery of the mezzotints of David Waterson revived his previous interest in landscape, and for the next three years, he produced over three-hundred watercolors of Scotland. This work earned him the First Prize in watercolors at the 42nd Annual International North Wynd River Art Competition in the United States.
In Scotland, he exhibited through the Warehouse Gallery in Banff and at the McManus Museum in Dundee.
In 1992 the artist returned to America, and lived for a year in Sonoma, California, where he produced over four hundred commissioned drawings for the Sonoma Ballet Conservatory which were sold through Chevriers Presidio Gallery in Sonoma.
Upon completion of this project, he relocated to Southbridge, Virginia, where he resided until early 1997, at which time he moved to Bowie, Maryland, where he lived until 1998.
The artist now lives with his family in Maryland about 10 minutes north of Washington, DC. He is represented in Washington, D.C. by the Fraser Gallery, which is owned by his wife, the photographer Catriona Fraser.
In addition to numerous galleries, his work has been exhibited at the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Art Museum in California, the Musee des Duncan in France, the Frick Museum in Ohio, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, and the Rock Springs Art Center in Wyoming. He has also curated several shows in the Washington D.C. capital city area.
Campello is also a regularly published art critic of regional prominence. His art reviews can be found in Visions Magazine for the Arts, The Washington Post.com, Dimensions Magazine, Pitch Magazine, The City Beat, The KOAN Art Newsletter and various local newspapers such as the Crier newspapers, the Manassas Journal and others." |
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