By Pam Bunch
Special to the 830 Times
“My life long dream has been to paint for a living,” said David Forks of Del Rio, this month’s featured artist at the Lee-Bunch Studio Gallery.
Forks’ work will be featured throughout the month of October beginning with the Oct. 7 First Friday Art Walk at the gallery. A reception will be held Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. at the gallery, 100 W. Greenwood, which is the corner of South Main Street and Greenwood.
Bunch and Forks have been friends in the art world now for a number of years. He is also one of Lee-Bunch Studio Gallery’s permanent exhibitors. Bunch said her gallery will be showing a number of Forks’ newest works that have not been exhibited in Del Rio in the past along with a few that some of you may have seen at other galleries across our state.
Forks is number six out of seven children and was born in San Antonio to a military family. After graduating high school, Forks had successful careers in commercial art and also commercial printing. For 30 years Forks shelved his aspirations to be a full time artist while he raised a family of four boys which does not leave any time to paint for yourself much less anyone else! With the untimely passing of an older brother to cancer in late 2006, Forks’ eyes began to be opened to the fleeting of time and the realization that it was now or never to make his dream a reality.
Forks moved to Del Rio from the Houston metroplex in 2016 to pursue his lifelong dream of painting full time. “It is my vocation and my life blood and I’m ever grateful to now have the opportunity to paint my favorite subjects, the scenes of the Texas Trans-Pecos including the Big Bend region and the Texas Hill Country,” Forks said. He is now working in multiple medias which include watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil and is one of Del Rio’s favorite contemporary Texas landscape artists.
“We are proud to have David with us,” Bunch said.
Lee-Bunch Studio Gallery will serve hors d’oeuvres along with wine and its famous house punch for the artist reception during the First Friday Art Walk hours. Bunch said they would also exhibit other renowned local and regional Texas artists.
Lee-Bunch Studio continues to provide custom matting and framing or you just might find Bunch, artist and owner, working on her next painting for a state or national fine art show. Come visit and explore the wonderful world of the fine art of David Forks. His paintings will be on exhibit at Lee-Bunch Studio Gallery for the month of October.
