Joseph Fawcett

Joseph Fawcett was born overseas and has been raised here in the United States. He is now 48 years old. While he was good at art throughout his schooling he was not exceptional to any ones estimations. For this reason he never pursued an art career and could not afford college to get better. He did excel in the special event industry where he owned his own company in Chicago, IL., for many years. He moved to Indiana where he also owned his own special event company and worked mostly in South Bend. After a number of difficult years dealing with the care and death of a dear friend, and with harsh cancer treatments, he decided to do something very different. He went to work on a Dude Ranch in Idaho, in the office. There he found the inspiration to sketch too much to contain. After returning to Indiana for the winter he decided to just sketch even badly, or just the fun of it. To everyone's amazement he was a lot better than he had ever been, even to himself. He continued to sketch and after returning to the Ranch the following spring he was encouraged to get prints and sell them. It has snowballed since then. After leaving the job at the Ranch he move to Smithtown, NY., with family to pursue an art career.