Biography
Eric Bess was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing from Wittenberg University in 2008. After graduating, he began to teach drawing privately, at the Springfield Art Museum and at Clark State Community College. He returned to school to to receive a Masters of Fine Art in Oil Painting first attending the New York Academy of Art and then the Academy of Art University. He also attended several workshops including: Figure Drawing with Steven Assael, Figure Painting with Vincent Desiderio, and Oil Painting Best Practices with George O’Hanlon and Natural Pigments. In 2015, Eric went back to Wittenberg University to teach drawing before returning to school again to pursue a PhD in aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2016.
Eric is greatly influenced by the world religions and the traditional art methods used to express their content. He has traveled extensively through the eastern United States and Europe absorbing the content and methods of western religious painting practices. He uses representational drawing, figurative oil painting, and metal leaf to express his understanding of the human being’s spiritual existence. He continues to show his work throughout the United States.
Eric Bess was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing from Wittenberg University in 2008. After graduating, he began to teach drawing privately, at the Springfield Art Museum and at Clark State Community College. He returned to school to to receive a Masters of Fine Art in Oil Painting first attending the New York Academy of Art and then the Academy of Art University. He also attended several workshops including: Figure Drawing with Steven Assael, Figure Painting with Vincent Desiderio, and Oil Painting Best Practices with George O’Hanlon and Natural Pigments. In 2015, Eric went back to Wittenberg University to teach drawing before returning to school again to pursue a PhD in aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2016.
Eric is greatly influenced by the world religions and the traditional art methods used to express their content. He has traveled extensively through the eastern United States and Europe absorbing the content and methods of western religious painting practices. He uses representational drawing, figurative oil painting, and metal leaf to express his understanding of the human being’s spiritual existence. He continues to show his work throughout the United States.