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Jim Shoots is a California artist dubbed "Grandpa Moses" by family and friends because of the timing of the bulk of his artwork. After a 35 year teaching career at the high school
level, Jim began to explore two long-held retirement goals: travel and painting.
Following first-time training in watercolor media with renowned California artist Harold Booth, he traveled to the south of France in an art group with Booth. The trip had a
powerful impact on Shoots who, like so many before him, responded to the experience with an urgent need to capture the power and beauty of what he saw. The resulting paintings reflect the glorious history of several
walled cities in France and are quickly followed by an Italian series that begins to capture the impact of Venice, Florence, San Gimignano, Rome, and Capri upon a first-time traveler. The following year Shoots
traveled to Colonial Mexico and produced a series of paintings of Oaxaca and its indigenous people. Currently, he is developing a new series based on travels in New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. Of course, as a
native Californian, he also has the creative advantage of having the many varied beauties of his native state as artistic inspiration……the rugged Pacific coast, the wine country, the Monterey Peninsula, the
Central Valley, and the Tahoe Basin.
Please share Jim Shoots' artistic vision by viewing representative samples of his work.
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