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Show Old Town Gallery Features New Artists 1 I ' x . vV - The Old Town Gallery, located at 614 Main St., Park City, is presenting two new artists from October 3 to October 31, Farrell R. Collett who paints oils and waterco-lors waterco-lors and Stan Roberts who does ceramics. Farrell R. Collett, a native of Idaho was a professor of Art and for thirty years, Chairman of the Art Dept. of Weber State College earned his BA and MFA degrees at Brigham Young Univ. and did additional study at the Univ. of Utah. Dr. Collett is one of the most prominent and successful success-ful of all Utah artists. He is known nationally as a distin-jr distin-jr guished painter of wildlife, the aptitude for which he traces to ranch life as a boy in Idaho and Utah. His interests and predilictions reach far beyond his magnificent magnifi-cent animal studies to encompass a wide variety of works from varied landscapes land-scapes to portraits of anony mous street people of Spain. His work has been exhibited exhibit-ed in galleries from coast to coast and in Canada. He has been widely collected and his paintings and drawings are owned by galleries, banks, and by private individuals in collections throughout the U.S. Dr. Collett' s awards and honors are both local and national in scope, and he is listed in Who's Who in American Art and in Artists of Reknown. Stan Roberts, a native of Salt Lake, is fascinated by stoneware. He is especially interested in the process of Raku, combining that ancient an-cient firing process with his own construction of traditional traditio-nal form. He is a graduate of the Univ. of Utah. He studied pottery with Roy Garrison, and did additional study with Mel Simpson. He was apprenticed under Kevin Frazier. Pheasants Water color by Farrell R. Collett |
