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Houston Llew was just seven the first time
he got lost in the art world. A boy gone missing at New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he was found setting
on a bench, quietly pondering Botticelli's 'Annunication'
and sketching its rays of light in his notepad. In later
years - with less panic spread to his elders - Houston shared
the same quite moments in Holland with Van Gogh and with
da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre.
A
southern boy, Houston attended school in the Alabama town
of Auburn then went to work in the seaport of Savannah.
He moved along the Gulf of Mexico where he kept books for
a living and cast netted to keep his sanity. The spirited
old South flirted with his penchant for icons but Houston
Llew had not yet found the prima vitae he sought to breathe
his imagery to life.
It
was while visiting family in Santa Fe that Houston would
meet the artist Zingaro. The master found in Houston a young
man worthy of mentorship and came to share with him his
precious gift - this luminous medium of glass fired to copper
- a timeless technique the artist had inherited from the
late masters Craig Ruwe and Fred Ball. When Houston envisioned
his imagery embraced in this fire, he knew he'd come full
circle - once again, lost in the world of art.
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