Multi-media Artist, Author, Arts Educator, James Maxwell moved to the Mendocino Coast in 1973.

A few examples of his prolific creative work can be seen below.

Some details:

James E. Maxwell

Born: June 15, 1941
Riverside, California
Drew and Painted at an early age

Riverside School District
1946 thru 1959

Childhood summer vacations with immediate family:
1949 thru 1958 Pacific Northwest and Western Canada

Joined US Air Force 1959
After military testing for skills
Studied Pattern Recognition and types of Military Codes

Assigned Bremerhaven, Germany US Security Service
Three years duty.
My own one room painting studio in Germany 1960-1963
Traveled extensively throughout Western Europe
Museums, and artists’ open studios

College:
BFA, MFA
Art Center College of Design 1963 -1969

Work:

The Hollywood Chapter of The National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences
Los Angeles Area
Television Academy Awards 1970
Honors JAMES MAXWELL Graphics
For Contributions to the winning
of an Area Television Academy Award
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
KNBC-TV june 26, 1970

PBS-TV Staff Artist Los Angeles 1974-1976

One Man Showings:
La Cieniga Blvd – Hollywood, CA
each year 1973-1976

1976 Moved to Mendocino, Northern California

Fine Arts-illustration Painting/Sculpture instructor
Mendocino Art Center & College of the Redwoods

Retired at 68 years of age
Returned to Europe when 70 for six weeks visiting
friends in England, France, Switzerland, Northern Italy.

At 72 returned to England and Northern Scotland, Isle of Sky

Traveled with painting supplies
South Pacific, Hawaii, American Samoa, Western Samoa,
Kingdom of Tonga, and New Zealand,
Ireland East West and South for six weeks spring Summer 2016

Returned home overlooking Fort Bragg, CA’s Pudding Creek

“I focus on what I can learn from images that question me as much as I question them.” JM