A little about myself.....My name is Ronald C.Guthrie and I live in Solvang, Cali I am a member of the Artists Guild of the Santa Ynez Valley and the International Society of Marine Painters in which I was their first pen & ink artist.  I have also been recently juried in as an official Coast Guard Artist in the Coast Guard Art Program, COGAP. I was raised in Pasadena Ca. and did all of my art schooling there. I have 2 daughters named Amanda and Jennifer and they are my swe.
My journey in art began like most artists. I always drew since I can remember. It was at Blair High School that
Mr. Gerald Garden and Mr Vince Melie began the first of my formal art education. After graduating I spent 3 years
in the US Army serving in Katterbach Germany with the 1st Armored Division. Once back home I attended Pasadena
City College where I studied drawing, design and painting. Although my heart was in art I never assumed it to be
more than just a hobby. I worked my day job and started a family having 2 wonderful daughters along the way.

Still, I worked on my own perfecting the art of stippling in pen & ink and buying tons of painting books and plugging
away on my own. Eventually, I began taking on commissions for pen & ink drawings. Soon I had prints made of my work
and began to sell prints online through the Internet. Sales happened and that spurred me into deciding to pursue my growing love
of oil painting even more. I had become very interested in California Impressionsist painting and the entire Plein Air scene.
I moved from Pasadena to the town of Solvang on the Central Coast in 2005 and began to get involved with the local Artist
Guilds here. Entering my pen & ink and oil paintings I began to win awards for both and sales continued. By now, I had sold
pen & ink prints in just about every State in the US including Hawaii and Alaska as well as overseas in England and Australia
and Canada.

I continue to pursue my quest of becoming a competent painter and strive to perfect on canvas, or paper, the scenes that
interest and surround me. I try and let nature tell the story in my work. I want to capture the beauty of sunlight as it effects
the world I live in and not dramatize it for an artists sake. I want to share what is seen everyday and bring moments of light
and time to the people who see my work.