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Roy Vellinga was born and raised in Ogden, Utah except for the first two years of his life, which were spent in a small log home with wood floors on a farm in Upalco, Ut. Although he has no memory of those early years, he feels a kinship to the rural lifestyle, which is still one of his favorite places to go.
While in high school, he spent two summers on a dairy farm in Star Valley, Wyoming and a summer on a dude ranch as a wrangler in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. These were some of his fondest memories as a youth and have instilled within him a draw to the high mountains and the valleys, which he loves to paint.
He attended Weber State College with ambitions to be an architect. It was there that he discovered his strengths were in art more than math. Roy spent the next 30 years working as an Architectural Illustrator for Kinateder and Associates. While he and his wonderful wife, Linda, raised their six children, he would spend much of his spare time painting in watercolors and gouache.
"I have found that I am happiest when I am doing something for someone else. That feeling of sharing ones self is a large part of why I love to paint. It is a way for me to share my thoughts, my feelings, and my abilities with others, so that they would know how I feel about the world in which we live.
"Bouguereau, Sergant, and Carl Block have stirred in me a sense of reverence for art. I would like someday, to have someone feel about my paintings that same inner stir that I have felt for their paintings.
"The creative process is uplifting to me, the endless learning opportunities that art affords are intriguing. The process is fun, the journey is enjoyable."
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