Roy Owsley

ROY OWSLEY BIO
Roy Owsley has been an NYC/Catskills-based visual artist for over 40 years, recognized for his “poetic” land and seascape paintings, as well as for his expertise as a biophilic designer of edgy urban (living) landscapes in the Northeast United States. Although he has adopted a New York sensibility, much of Roy’s paintings are informed by his childhood initiation on his family farm in rural Kentucky – There, he learned to respect and appreciate nature in all her majesty and beauty.
Owsley received a formal education in the theatre, working professionally as an actor in that medium for over a decade, only later to discover that his true calling was to draw and paint, and that he preferred to use and manipulate that paint to breath life and energy into what he sees and experiences in the natural world. Nature is also communicated by Owsley in a more fantastical manner through what he describes as his series of “Dreamscapes”. Among his dreamscapes is the common theme of cattle grazing under a pink sky, awash with misty moonlight.
Roy Owsley’s paintings have been featured in numerous art galleries, public and private collections and venues throughout the USA, UK and Canada, including Saatchi & Saatchi, Macy’s Herald Squar...

BA, Communications & Theatre, Western Kentucky University, 1976-1980

Solo Exhibitions

2012 “Through the Looking Glass” A series of landscape paintings & terrarium art installations,” Marleau Gallery, Saugerties, NY (Nov. 2 – Dec. 23)
2009 Owsley Art-Open Studio/ BRB Series Paintings,
East Village, NY, NY
2008 Public space exhibition, Banc of America Prime
Brokerage, NY, NY
2007/08 Owsley Art-Open Studio/” Plein Air Works,” Palenville, NY (Catskills)
2001-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc., NY, NY (long-term loan agreement for public space exhibition– total of 12 large canvases)

Group Exhibitions
Pleiades Gallery Friends of Pleiades Invitational, Dec. 2023-Jan. 2024
WAAM "Gratitude" - juried group show, Woodstock, NY
2024 “Friends of Pleiades – Invitational Show” (Chelsea) – Gallery Pleiades
2019 “Inspired by Picasso” (curated by V. Kennedy) – Saatchi Art Gallery (international)
2012 “Summer Group Show”, WAAM (Woodstock Artist’s Association & Museum), Woodstock, NY. July-August; Bank Rock Bay No. 8, 48” x 48”, selected by Jury.
2011 Lyons-Wier Gallery (Chelsea), Winter Art Bazaar NY, NY
2010 Lyons-Wier Gallery (Chelsea), Fall Art Bazaar NY, NY