By Dean Linsky

 from California, US
Oil on canvas
from his Gallery "California Rustic"
© Art of the West, US
http://www.artofthewest.net/
Dean Linsky has spent the last 28 years living in California and exhibiting his work in some of the finest galleries on the west coast. Today , his paintings can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Born in 1965 , he spent much of his youth drawing and painting. Early on he was finding opportunities that would pay a freelance illustrator for providing camera ready artwork used in publishing and advertising. Often times , it was hand painting signs or creating logo designs for local business that would keep him busy .
So it was no surprise that soon after finishing school he would begin an ambitious journey to become a professional artist... Upon visiting California as a child, Dean knew that he would return to it again someday. Seeing this part of the country for the first time would captivate his imagination and awaken a spirit of wanderlust . Life in northern Illinois was unbearably dull. It offered little adventure compared with the land and folklore of the American West. By 1984 , at the age of eighteen, he began making frequent trips back to the coast eventually moving to the Monterey Peninsula. This change alone would provide him all of the inspiration needed to become a committed artist ...

In 1989 he was honored to accept an offer of representation in one of the most recognized and successful galleries in Carmel by the Sea . Once in the company of some of the finest painters in America, his work would mature into what it is today...