DONAL C. JOLLEY

Donal Clark Jolley was born in Zion National Park, Utah on October 20, 1933. His father was a Chief Ranger for the National Park Service. The family later moved to Boulder City, Nevada when Jolley was ten. He graduated Boulder City, Nevada High School where he received his first academic art training with cheap hard pigments of watercolor paints and cheap craft paper. He later attended Brigham Young University where he received his B.S. in 1959. He was employed as an illustrator for the US Army and The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a full time painter since 1970 and is listed in "Who's Who in American Art 1980." Jolley's favorite subjects--nature forms, trains, old cars, Indians and rustic buildings--are part of his heritage of Western Americana. He works mostly in watercolor, but acrylics and oils are included in every show. After leaving the Army, Jolley found work as an illustrator for Space Technology Laboratories in Los Angeles. For the next eleven years he fought an inner battle between accepting the security of a confining job that paid well, and giving into the urge to dedicate himself full-time to more creative art. He did some free-lance cartooning and illustrations for car magazines in the L.A. area, but had little time for personal art. In 1963, Jolley transferred to The Aerospace Corporation in San Bernardino, sixty miles inland, and too far from the metropolitan areas to offer free-lance opportunities in any quantity. The daily grind of turning out illustrations of aerospace hardware became increasingly tedious. The day he got his ten-year tie pin, he left the company. He traded or sold paintings for necessitates, picked up some commercial assignments, taught Community College classes, and finally moved to the mountains to open a studio-gallery. He was the featured artist in the Southwest Art Magazine in March of 1980 as well as Camera Life in 1980. He is a member of the National Watercolor Society and was a past Vice President of the Watercolor West. He was also a Board Member of the San Bernardino Fine Arts Institute. He was a member of the Whiskey Painters of America as well (a miniature watercolor society). He was represented in the "In-the Spirit" Gallery in Kansas City, Kansas, "Savage Galleries" in Scottsdale and Santa Fe, and the "GRISWOLDS" Art Gallery in Claremont California. He was also represented in the 1980-1981 NWS travel show and Watercolor West Annual Exhibit, and has shown his work at BYU in 1975, the University of Nevada, Reno in 1978, the Edward Dean Museum, and others. He is married to Ginger and has a son named Keith. The three live in Rimforest, California, the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead. He also has a son, Donal Dean Jolley and a daughter, Karen Elizabeth Jolley.