Garland Joseph Swinney
Artist/MuralistGarland Joseph Swinney was born in Houston, Texas in 1961. His family moved to nearby Splendora, Texas when he was 8 years old, where he grew up. He now lives near Splendora with his wife and two children. Shauna, his daughter, is a junior at Stephen F. Austin University and his son, Keith is a junior at Splendora High School.
Swinney demonstrated artistic talent at an early age. With his mother and teachers encouragement, he studied under noted watercolor artist Ronnie Wells, and started selling his completed water color works while he was still in high school. He was the recipient of several national high school honor awards while in his junior and senior years. His artistic accomplishments include oil painting, sculpture, casting, blacksmithing and wall murals.
His artwork is in many private and corporate collections. He is currently self represented but has been represented by many galleries including:
Aarons Art Gallery, Humble, Texas;
Quicksilver Arts & Minerals, Eureka Springs, Arkansas;
The Pace Collection, Houston, TexasSwinney's painting 'Covered Bridge', was purchased in 1989 and currently hangs beside the works of Frederick Remington and Charles Marion Russell in the permanent collection of the R. W. Norton Art Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana. www.rwnaf.org.
One of his paintings 'The Display of Wealth', a historic representation of Humble oil boom, was chosen for the city of Humble's sesquicentennial 'Good Oil Days' as their official festival art print.
Recent accomplishments include the creation of two mural size paintings (6' by 16'), which are historic representations of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. These two mural paintings will be displayed in the main dining room of the soon to be completed 'Steamboat House', a beautiful historical museum with fine dining, located on Beltway 8 adjacent to the Sam Houston Horse Race Track in Houston.
Drawing on his architectural background, some of his recent exterior wall murals are in the 'Trompe l'oeil' style; a French term meaning 'to deceive the eye'. These murals give the illusion of three dimensions on a flat wall. Two of these completed works can be seen in Cleveland, Texas (Alma;s Florist), and in Woodville, Texas (Mann Furniture).
Other recently completed indoor murals include artistic renditions of a forest backdrop for aviary rooms, clouds and cherubs, and roses and vines on residential ceilings.
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