D. Jeffrey Mims
"Jeffrey Mims has an understanding of the beauty and importance of technique which remains a mystery to all but a handful of living artists."
-- Edward Schmidt, co-founder of the New York Academy of Art
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Painter and muralist, D. Jeffrey Mims brings an extensive background of European training and intensive personal study to the formation of his work, assimilating elements from the history of both sculpture and painting. Born in North Carolina in 1954, Mims attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1976 Mims was awarded an Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation grant to further traditional study. Mims used this grant to support an intensive year of independent study in the museums of England, France, and Italy. In 1981 Mims returned to Florence, Italy where he studied for another year with Ben Long.
For over a decade, Mims would maintain studios in Italy and North Carolina, during which time he undertook a series of large works, including a fresco for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Glendale Springs, North Carolina, an altarpiece for Saint David’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, and murals for Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. In 1984 Mims received an Arthur Ross Award from Classical America for his Holy Trinity fresco.
Based on the principles of the Ross Award, “excellence and integrity in the application of classical ideals,” Mims Studios---A School of Fine Art opened its doors in Southern Pines, North Carolina, in 2001. The school offers a multi-year course of instruction in the methods and values of classical realist drawing, easel painting, and the creation of murals.
In 2006 Mims was invited to co-curate an exhibition at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, titled “Slow Painting: a Deliberate Renaissance” for which he contributed an essay, “Distinguishing the Essential from the Accidental.”
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