Bruce A. Gomez was born in Denver, Colorado in 1957 and was
educated at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado
at Denver, where he received a degree in Political Science
as well as a degree in Romance Languages.
He has been working in pastels for thirty-nine years, full-time
for the past twenty-nine. Entirely self-taught, Bruce works exclusively
in that medium on cold-pressed watercolor paper. In addition,
he has taught for the last twenty years at the Ah Haa
School in Telluride, CO, where he has been one of the school's
highest-rated instructors, consistently.
He has appeared in numerous Pastel Invitational shows as well as
Plein Air Invitationals including The Denver Golden Triangle Invitational,
and The Sedona Plein Air Festival, in which he won The
Collector's Choice Award, The Artists Choice Award, and received
one of five Merit Awards in 2011 and the Merit A wards in 2012.
His artistic influences range from Paleolithic art up to Alfred Sisley,
Maxfield Parrish, Juan Gris, and Gustav Klimt. He is singularly
fortunate enough to travel to and paint in such wonderful places
as Telluride, Paris, Rome, and Moab. He goes out and looks to
capture that one unique and spectacular moment of life, whether
in the mountains, in an urban setting, possibly slogging through
a deluge, snowshoeing in -10°F, or painting plein air in 101°F .
"I pride myself in painting something that anyone can see
themselves if they hang around: no exaggerations, no symbolism,
and no implied metaphor."
Bruce A. Gomez was born in Denver, Colorado in 1957 and was
educated at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado
at Denver, where he received a degree in Political Science
as well as a degree in Romance Languages.
He has been working in pastels for thirty-nine years, full-time
for the past twenty-nine. Entirely self-taught, Bruce works exclusively
in that medium on cold-pressed watercolor paper. In addition,
he has taught for the last twenty years at the Ah Haa
School in Telluride, CO, where he has been one of the school's
highest-rated instructors, consistently.
He has appeared in numerous Pastel Invitational shows as well as
Plein Air Invitationals including The Denver Golden Triangle Invitational,
and The Sedona Plein Air Festival, in which he won The
Collector's Choice Award, The Artists Choice Award, and received
one of five Merit Awards in 2011 and the Merit A wards in 2012.
His artistic influences range from Paleolithic art up to Alfred Sisley,
Maxfield Parrish, Juan Gris, and Gustav Klimt. He is singularly
fortunate enough to travel to and paint in such wonderful places
as Telluride, Paris, Rome, and Moab. He goes out and looks to
capture that one unique and spectacular moment of life, whether
in the mountains, in an urban setting, possibly slogging through
a deluge, snowshoeing in -10°F, or painting plein air in 101°F .
"I pride myself in painting something that anyone can see
themselves if they hang around: no exaggerations, no symbolism,
and no implied metaphor."