TREVOR SOUTHEY

This highly skilled Rhodesian-American figure painter (oil and acrylics), printmaker (etching), and sculptor (bronze) studied at the Brighton (England) College of Art (1958-60) and the National Technical College in South Africa (1960); taught at high schools in both Rhodesia and South Africa before coming to Utah County and Brigham Young University in the 1960s, where he was an original member of the Mormon Art and Belief movement. He earned two degrees at BYU (B.F.A., 1967; M.A., 1969) and served as an art department faculty member there from 1969 into the '70s. Becoming a resident of Alpine, Utah, Southey cofounded and served as a spokesman for the North Mountain Artists cooperative, an organized community of artists. The idea was for those involved "to support themselves through their work 'only,'" and some of them did just that. Being a very talented figurative painter, Southey was interested in the formation of a "Mormon art" through innovative treatments of LDS subject matter. And, more often than not, Southey seemed to be 'the' primary spokesman for the Alpine artists group during the later 1970s into the next decade. In the mid-1980s, he left the state and the LDS Church for the artistic adventures in the San Francisco Bay area.

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 242.