Jim’s love of painting began in grammar school in Atlanta, Georgia. His first commissions, sketches of airplanes and comic book covers, were for his classmates. He attended the High Museum School of Art, Atlanta, and afterwards began a career in commercial art. He lives in the North Georgia Mountains where he and his wife, Mary, founded the North Georgia Arts Guild. He is a past vice president of the Georgia Watercolor Society and has participated in regional, national, one man and group shows for over thirty years. He was invited to exhibit in the prestigious Biennale Intermazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy in December 2003. Jim is a member of the  Oil Painters Of America and is represented in New York by Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art.    

Jim has conducted watercolor workshops and classes in Atlanta, Rome, Northeast Georgia and North Carolina. In recent years Jim has been painting Plein Air oil on canvas and finds this a very exciting and rewarding experience producing small quick pieces on location and larger works in the studio.

EXHIBITED:
LaGrange National, LaGrange, Georgia; Midwest Watercolor Society, Kentucky Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society, Georgia Miniature Painting Society; Callanwolde Art Center, Atlanta, Dekalb College Library; Art Station Invitational, Stone Mountain, Georgia; Bascombe Louise Library, Highlands nc; Schacknow Museum, Plantation Florida; one man and  group shows in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia and Connecticut. Also exhibited in art fairs in nine states.

SELECTED COLLLECTORS;
AT&T Art Collection, Washington, DC; Allstate Insurance; Arthur Andersen Company, the Blount Collection, Montgomery, Alabama; Charter Medical Hospitals, Coca Cola, AM South Banks, Birmingham and Huntsville, Alabama, Georgia Pacific; Johnson Lane Brokers, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Bank of North Georgia, Kimberly Clark, YKK Zipper Manufacturing, Persimmon Creek Vineyards, Stephens Federal Bank, Clayton, Ga.

Jim Dodd’s original paintings, Giclee’s and prints can be seen by appointment at his studio/ gallery, in Wolffork Valley, 338 Hawkeye Trail Rabun Gap, Ga. 30568

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