Jed Dorsey
Our younger son, and widely collected acrylic artist, is Jed Dorsey. He is the one who got me (Ann Cory) painting again after my 30 odd years of retirement from watercolors to raise our family.
Growing up Jed Dorsey was much like our other two children. It was easy to see talent and he had great drawing ability, but his life was chucked full of other activities: school, football, basketball and baseball.
He participated in our family art booth at the fair and sold a number of paintings to early collectors and actually won a prize at a youth art competition in Bellevue.
When he was about 17 he made a discovery of his own.
Instead of going further and more seriously into art, he fell in love with music through a used guitar that had been a Christmas gift.
Inside of Jed Dorsey had been locked up a love of music and creativity in writing it. He wrote and sang his own songs, later learning from and sharing with friends at college.
Anyway, as his mom, I was pretty sure that Jed Dorsey was destined to be a professional musician perhaps, but not a professional artist. But who could expect to have artists turn out in three out of three children?
However, somewhere along the line, Jed Dorsey, began taking a deep interest in art and chose acrylic as his medium.
He experimented and learned and read on his own and took classes from the well-known Canadian artists, Mike Svob and Robert Genn.
He and his dad went together on a father-son outing to southern Idaho where they had an oil-painting worshop with Ovanes Berberias.
Jed Dorsey, artist, keeps some paintings here in our studio and is also represented on Camano Island by Seagrass Gallery (360.387.8300). Jed has a web site of his own where you can see some of his work: www.jeddorsey.com.
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