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Mel is a local artist who enjoys painting landscapes in oil, watercolor and acrylic. He still remembers the joy of painting at an easel during the weekly art classes in elementary school. After four years in the Air Force, he enrolled in college at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA., where he studied architecture and civil engineering. While attending school he won several design awards in architecture. Upon graduation in 1960, he, his wife Jan and their three small children moved to Oxnard. He continued to study art and to paint throughout his professional career as a registered civil engineer and surveyor. He retired in 1997 to become a full time artist. Since then he has won many awards for his paintings.
Like most artists, he considers his art education to be an ongoing, life-long experience. His teachers are his books and the outdoors, both of which he studies every day. As with all endeavors, learning continues by doing, studying, and then doing again - hopefully better.
Mel's paintings have been exhibited in the Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum and Ventura County Maritime Museum. They are sold through local galleries. His works are in many private collections.
See Rhoads' work in the Buenaventura Gallery and the Harbor Village Gallery. You can contact him at
melpaints@aol.com
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