Today we’d like to introduce you to the brilliant Wallace Lebrun.
Wallace, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Being attracted to art a young age, painting provided an outlet which allowed me to spend time on interesting subjects. Garnering local attention from friends and family heightened and evoked emotional tangibility to continue autodidacticism or self-teaching. I found solace in studying and painting through the night to meet my own expectations for paintings. During a brief few years time working for another artist, learning that everything came into place working with an artist. The life of an artist was constantly on my mind and peace came along with it. More than a decade later working with small portrait projects with those close to me I began working with a designer and architect that had an opening for an artist’s works leading to private clients in the Hamptons, Miami, New York, and Europe.
Has it been a smooth road?
During the progress of change in artist studios. professional supplies and clients, there has been many rough patches. After working as an artist once settles in there was the sudden embrace of change in having to support living through means of work through the typical workforce. Also including living painting to painting while looking for new means of gathering attention from clients and having to fall back on traditional means of work as in teaching painting classes.
What role has luck had in your life and career?
I have had luck in that I was able to make deadlines at short notice and having the work being appreciated more than I would have believed which gave a boost in energy and ambition to survive the aftermath of working days and overnights. It was pure luck that I didn’t have to speak or explain but to just watch the unveiling of the painting and seeing how people would gather to enjoy the beauty of creativity.
Do you feel like there are certain traits that increase the likelihood of success?
Being willing to work hard and to work on communication to drive the goal into the right direction is the feeling that is important to overall success.
What do you love about our city and what do you dislike?
The best thing about the city is the openness to the arts. So many gatherings for artists to create and to find the path to creativity is open to slowly grow. So many people to look up to that have been doing their work to make the city a pleasure to work in. My dislike has been that some networking circles have little drive to connect artists like myself that use lots of time to work. This has been replaced by a more vigorous and faster modern approach. Leaving room for disconnect and a loss for opportunities to learn more and a loss to share the experiences with each other, but this is due to modernism in how people connect.
Contact Info:
- Website: wallacelebrun.com
- Phone: 954-854-4565
- Email: info@wallacelebrun.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/wallacesart
Anna Lenoir
September 14, 2016 at 21:14
I met Wallace over three years ago. The first photo is his portrait of my little dog, Princess. Wallace is one of America’s greatest artists. He is still very young and will eventually become one of the artists our children will read about. Thank you for spotlighting him.