Dave Lester is a retired public school music and art teacher, living most of his career in the San Francisco area, and now resides in Parker, Colorado a suburb in southeast Denver.
He has a degree in Music Education from University of New Mexico and a Master's Degree in Musical Performance, while studying bass trombone with Jeff Reynolds of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, from California State University, Long Beach. He also has graduate studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Portland State University. He has studied painiting with Don Andrews, Arne Westerman, Tim Clark, and Tom Lynch.
Dave enjoys painting landscapes from his travels. He makes a yearly extensive trip to Italy every year, and also travels throught the west of the United States. This past summer of l 2007, he was invited to participate in a one week painting colony in Slovenia with painters from Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia. Following this he traveled to the Veneto area of Italy and painted in Vicenza, Verona and Soave.
Plans for the Spring are to paint in Padua and Venezia at the end of May, 2008, and then to travel along the coastal area making paintings down to Rome. His paintings are currently in exhibit through January in Parker, Colorado.
Dave is available for instruction in watercolors, pastels, acrylics and oils. He also will conduct class painting demonstrations in these medias.
You can reach the artist at his home studio.
20838 E. Parliament Ct.
Parker, Colorado 80138
303 284 5462, cell: 303 406 8922
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