Les Mayers

Les Mayers is an established, contemporary artist and designer from Southern California. He pioneers many today’s advanced methods of creating, displaying, and enjoying art, and has contributed to the emerging acceptance of digitally created art as a major fine art movement. His innovative impressionistic art has been sold in fine art galleries and exhibited from coast to coast throughout the United States, including New York's iconic Times Square.

He believes the conceptual definition of fine art should include all items of beauty, that have been created as an artifact. Although Les originally presented his art as traditional oil paintings on stretched canvas and specialized art papers, his artistic journey expanded to include the exploration of various emerging new media (such as milled metal, Plexiglas, and other unique substrate materials), advanced graphic creation techniques, and many new concepts of presenting graphic images and fine art.

Les developed one of his first art-related innovations while he was studying art. He designed and implemented an adjustable hanging easel to aid in the creation of his poured lacquer collections. More recently, Les has focused on the ongoing advances in digital technology that help ...

1953-54 Studied drawing in charcoal with a private instructor (unknown)
1958-60 Studied photography under the direction of Eddie Rothschild
1958-64 Studied oil painting with artist and instructor Errol Dorschel
1963-65 Studied sculpture with artist and instructor Bernard Zimmerman
1963-67 Studied film making and fine art at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1964-65 Studio studies in oil painting at the University of California, Los Angeles
1965-66 Class work in sculpture at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu