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  Wesley Meier is a 1973 graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York with a degree in painting and drawing and a minor in photography. Mr. Meier studied with Wolf Kahn, Paul Resika, and Armando Morales and others. Also there, Hannes Beckmann, who had been a student at The Bauhaas, was Mr. Meier’s most influential instructor in color theory.

In addition, he studied artistic anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League for a time.

 

  For medical and spiritual reasons, he left Manhattan and went back to his home state of New Jersey and began a career in the field of commercial art and illustration; a profession that took him around the world. He met many wonderful people and can claim many, many clients as friends. For the last 25 years or so, he and his brother partnered in a company, Meier Creative, a design studio that concentrated on surface design for collectable tins, figurines, gift-wrap and accessories for both the school fund raising and retail markets.

 

  Although Mr. Meier is now focusing on his first love; painting in oil and water media, he still keeps busy designing patterns for gift wrap companies and the like. Many examples of this are offered on the pages of this website. Also on the website, are examples of fine art restoration that he has been contracted to do.

  His wife, Linda, and he live in the South Eastern part of Pennsylvania. He loves the verdant hills of Bucks, Berks and Lehigh Counties. For him, they are replete with breath-taking scenes that are just waiting to be painted. He also loves to paint still-life in the tradition of Chardin with rich layers of color, textures and shadows.

 

  He continually studies the work of the great masters and tries to learn something from each one while making sure that his personal message and passion for the subject matter always comes through in all of his work.