Guy Sealey

Guy Sealey's career in art began not in a hushed studio, but in the brutal theater of War.

His muse did not dance lightly into his life sprinkling beautifully-colored trails of artistic inspiration! He found his passion and purpose through the grit of standing night guard in the South African army during Apartheid. Mandatory two-year service fighting for racial segregation under a corrupt government made him angry and feeling hopeless -- until he started creating. Those army creations ostensibly resembled advertising posters, but contained veiled anti-apartheid messages within beautiful imagery. When his clueless commanding officers commissioned the work for their homes he knew he’d found an outlet for his frustration and his ultimate path. Feeling the power of paintings as protest, his artistic vision was born: "it better fucking move you and stand for something!"

Convincing his father, a Harvard man and CEO of a South African coal mining group, to pay for his art education – in the U.S. – was his next challenge to overcome but he eventually made his way to the Parsons School of Design in NYC, graduating with a BFA in Communication Design. Guy spent his early career in advertising where his desire for honest communications...

Parsons School of Design in NYC, BFA in Communication Design.