2026 Festival Artist: Richard Bordeaux
Artist Statement
Richard Bordeaux was born in Miami, Florida, and attended college in Tallahassee graduating with a BA and MA in English. In 1968 he moved to Jacksonville, where he became a professor of English at Florida Community College at Jacksonville for thirty years, for a time serving as chairman of the English department. It was while teaching at FCCJ that Richard became interested in taking up painting and sculpture, for which a full-time job left little time.
After retiring in 1998, Richard and his spouse, Jack Sapolsky, moved full-time to Highlands, where they had had a vacation home and had by then made many wonderful friends.
Retirement provided the time for Richard to explore painting and wood carving in a wide range of styles. He is largely self-taught. Now in his eighties, Richard still devotes a part of almost every day to painting and continues to marvel that something so much fun could be legal!
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