Ed Weston

illustrator, watercolor

Biography

Born December 10, 1950, in Libby, Montana, my family moved around the Pacific Northwest quite a few times in the late 50s to the mid 60s. I graduated from R.A. Long High School in Longview, Washington, in 1969. I was a three-year letterman on the swim team.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 70s, qualified as sensor #1 for the P-3 Orion ASW aircraft, then was honorably discharged in 1973. I graduated from the University of Oregon in 1979 with a B.S. in sculpture. I studied jewelry, oil painting, weaving, etching, monoprinting, metal, and plastic casting while at the U of O.

I’ve worked at various things, including as a lifeguard, landscape worker, and longshoreman, until 1980 when I hired on as a Radiological Control Technician at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard where I continue to work today.

My side interests are 30+ years playing the bass guitar, reading fiction and non-fiction, and sailing. I’ve been working for about a year and a half on a reproduction of a 1967 Ferrari prototype, the 330 P-4.

Other media I’ve worked in are markers, pen and pencil works, copper fabrication, and woodcarving. I work happily in black and white or color. Even on some realistic works, I work from a structural point of view, even if it may look like it’s mostly chaotic. Usually parts are done quickly to overcome initial kibitzing. I hope to have time and space to produce some 3-D works eventually.