Jewell Edward Cundiff
Artist’s Statement
Art is a voluntary effort to satisfy an involuntary urge.
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Born November 15, 1946 in Boonville, Missouri, I received a B.S. in Commercial Art from Missouri State University in 1968. Following four years in the US Navy, I worked briefly as a commercial artist for a small appliance manufacturing company. During that period, I produced the art for the first small appliance selected for the cover of the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog.
In 1974 I began freelancing as a residential designer. When I married in 1975, I designed and built our first home and then resumed painting in earnest. I worked for architectural offices from 1978 through 1990, moonlighting on the side. I opened my own design office, J.E. Cundiff, Designer in 1990 to produce some of the area’s finest homes. My art was selling through galleries.
I continued working in my design business until family health issues forced it to close. My wife of 45 years died in May of 2021.
I started painting in high school, and still own that first painting. and practiced architectural drawings for 45 years. I see the two passions as innately related forms of artistic expression.
My art has been displayed at Artexpo New York, 2021 & 2022, SPECTRUM MIAMI, 2021, M.A.D.S. Galleries in Milan, Italy and Fuerteven, Spain, 2021 and will be on display at Red Dot Miami and Dallas Texas this fall, 2022.
