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Artist's Statement
Painting has been in my family for a long time -- three generations of men trying to express themselves through art. While I have had hundreds of hours of instruction at the Corcoran School of Art and other institutions, I learned more as a boy assisting my father and grandfather as they labored in cramped quarters, sweating and swearing, watching them as they struggled to rise above their own flaws.

I will never forget how my father would emerge from the basement to show three little children, often his only audience, his latest painting. How he earnestly would ask our opinion. I also will never forget how my grandfather would berate me one moment, goad me the next, and finally, put a paint-spattered hand around my shoulders.

I paint to hear the quiet satisfaction in my father's voice as I tell him of my latest successes. I paint largely because others, especially my father and grandfather, showed me how to paint, and more, to see things that others do not see.

I am driven to paint because it is one of the few ties that bind the men in my family -- and one of the few ways left for me to become my own man.

Artist Bio
Jamie Wimberly has had over 20 exhibitions of his work over the past five years and has been widely praised by critics and collectors. His work has been featured in a number of publications and on television, including PBS and the arts program, "AVU4U." Jamie is currently represented by three galleries, one in the Midwest and two on the East Coast, and his work is beginning to sell through Sotheby's.