Rick Sharp
Rick Sharp is a self-taught artist who grew up in Houston, Texas. Before graduating high school, Rick won a statewide art scholarship and was voted "Most Talented" by his Westbury High Senior Class. The scholarship award enabled the artist to get a foothold in California, and after a short stint at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Sharp's art career began to blossom. At age 19, now embedded in California's surf culture of the 70's, Rick won two separate national poster contests sponsored by Seventeen Magazine and Baskin Robbins. By the age of 23, Sharp's pen and ink drawings appeared in organic food stores, college dormitories, magazine ads and homes throughout Southern California. For over a decade, working out of Santa Barbara, Rick produced posters, calendars and tee shirt designs in his own 60's-influenced fairytale-book style art.
