Meet Hadley Rampton

We were lucky to catch up with Hadley Rampton recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hadley, so good to have you with us today. We’ve always been impressed with folks who have a very clear sense of purpose and so maybe we can jump right in and talk about how you found your purpose?

I’ve been drawing or creating visual art for longer than my memory allows. Seeing my natural interest in drawing, my mother enrolled me in visual art classes through the Visual Art Institute located in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 9. By the time I turned 12, I was figure drawing and painting in oil. From that point on, I knew that I wanted to pursue visual art as a profession.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

Having drawn and painted for as long as I can remember, I graduated from the University of Utah with an Honors BFA in Painting and Drawing in 1999. During my course of university study, I spent a semester in Florence, Italy taking classes in studio art, Renaissance Art History and History of Renaissance Architecture. I began painting professionally immediately after graduation.

Born and raised in Utah, I developed a great love for the outdoors. Not surprisingly, painting en plein air in the mountain and desert landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West and Colorado Plateau became my motus operandi, with aspen trees becoming my favorite subject matter. My time spent studying abroad ignited a love of exploration and immersion in other cultures, catapulting my practice of traveling to capture my impressions of foreign cities and street scenes in watercolor & ink. Countries in which I have painted include Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, England, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Check Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Cuba, Morocco, Palestine (West Bank) and Malta. My travel painting has led to collaboration with various humanitarian projects and organizations overseas. These include Project Wezesha in Western Tanzania, University of Utah Neighborhood Partners and their work with Karen and Karenni refugee camps in northern Thailand, and Choice Humanitarian in the Altiplano of Bolivia.

Over the course of my over 26 year professional career I hve participated in numerous Juried Exhibitions, Invitationals and Solo shows held at such venues as Springville Museum of Art, The High Desert Museum, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Eccles Art Center, Salt Lake Community College, Sedona Art Center, Idaho Falls Art Center, Phillips Gallery and Art Access.

I have been featured in several publications including Plein Air Magazine, Western Art & Architecture, Judsons Plein Air Journal, Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes Online Publication and Southwest Art Magazine. My work can be found in the collections of the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, SLC, UT, Raymond James Financial, the Yellowstone Club, Questar Gas, Aspen Traditional Rehab, and the Law Firms of Preg, O’Donnell & Gillett; Rooker Mohrman, Rawlings & Bailey; Ballard Spahr; and Hutchinson & Steffen.

Representing galleries: Phillips Gallery, Torrey Gallery, Abend Gallery, Sorrel Sky Gallery, Saatchiart.

Hadleyrampton.com

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I would say dicipline, the willingness to pay attention to my interests and desires, and to believe in myself. To others I would advise them to develope good work habbits, to listen to criticism but make it productive rather than self defeating, and have confidence in yourself.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

If I knew I only had one decade left I would continue living as I have been, which I think says a lot.

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Image Credits

Image of me painting: Amber Schivone

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