Randy Blanchard

Juror's Award in the Summer Arts XV Regional Juried Art Exhibition in 1989
(The University Art Galleries at the University of South Dakota in South Dakota offers
a six-state regional competition.Five pieces are chosen for the Juror's Choice Award and invited
to praticipate in an Award Winners' Exhibition the next year.)

1990 Summer Arts Award Winners Invitational
(The University Art Galleries at the University of South Dakota in South Dakota)

Merit Award in the University of Northern Iowa Student Art Exhibiton in Iowa in 1987

My name is Randy Blanchard, I was born in Clinton, Indiana, and raised in Draffensville, Kentucky. I recieved a B.F.A degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1987. I also studied art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and at Murray State University in Kentucky. I studied art in Florence, Italy, and taught art in Poland.

Poland is where my new style evolved. They are done in charcoal, on paper.
The style is very surrealistic. I went out to a lake in Poland and took black and white photos of the embankment and other areas around the lake. I developed the negatives and made 8" X 10" photos and used them as a basic sketch for the drawings to evolve from.

Many people I have spoken to say that they find my work is full of sexual energy. I think this type of art is also psychological because it reminds me of the Rorschach Ink Blot Tests. I can learn about people from listening to what they see in the drawings.

My work is in many private collections, listed below are several
collectors

Barbara Blanchard, in Kentucky
Pat Hardy, in Illinois
Charlotte Hardin, in North Carolina
George Pavelonis, in Iowa
Karen Redden, in Kentucky
Ed Bents, in Iowa


There are numerous others and to those, who own my work, and happen to find their way to this site please send me an 8" by 10" of the artwork. I would also like your address, to add to the list.

Best told in this poem I wrote:

Still growing, ever changing,
as shadows with the passing of time -
continuing to cultivate the ability to perceive
and express that perception in different ways.

I give praise to the LORD who has been there
in the Beginning and will be there in the End.