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Franklyn Seales Seeks Realm of a “Total Artist” 1952-1990
Presented by The Deborah Richardson-Brown Gallery
Born 1952 in the Caribbean, on the former British colony of ST. Vincent and the Grenadines. After graduating from Julliard School of Dance, Drama and Music. (Under the direction of John Huston) Seales pursued a successful career in acting, winning accolades for his work on both stage and screen. He is known for his mastery of Shakespearean roles in the New York theatre; his film credits include “The Onion Field,” “Southern Comfort,” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”; television appearances include “Trial of the Moke," “Hill Street Blues,” “Wise Guy,” and “Growing Pains,” as well as a stint as a series regular on “Silver Spoons.”
Until his untimely death on May 14, 1990.
In tandem with his acting career, Seales maintained an active interest in painting. A part of his life since the age of six. Early in his career, he studied with colorist and landscape artist Ian Robertson and West Indies artist O. D. Brisbane. Later, after he moved from
St. Vincent to New York City, he studied with Ron Mellman of the Brooklyn Museum.
His work, in acrylics and pen and ink, is largely inspired by his childhood surroundings. His love of vibrant color can be traced to the brilliant, lush colors of St .Vincent’s natural environment. Villa Bay, St. Vincent was also home to the Carib Indians, who created carvings on the rocks by the ocean. Seales has had a lifelong fascination with these carving; as a child he would trace the faces, composed of lines, with pieces of chalk. People were always the subject of Franklyn’s work, images with a tribal influence initiated by his association with the art and tribes of the Carib Indians. "The Caribs had immense influence in my life, even before I saw Picasso’s work, I was influenced by their art”, States Seales.
Franklyn then decided to shift the focus of his professional life from acting to the visual arts was spurred by his pursuit of his vision of the “total artist”. He has amassed some twenty years worth of original artwork, a portion of which was introduced to the public
By Red 44 at Art expo, New York 1989 and the reaming works of art is now available at
FranklynSealesArtwork.Com.
Notes Seales about his art, “I will like you to perceive my art as something of nature that can heal with its color, its movement and its simplicity”.
“I love color. I also love the radiograph. I found that pen and really fell in love with it. It creates those lines that I want that segments the body…to treat the body not as an inhuman thing, but see if I could make something human out of something that was sort of angular. But mostly, I'm interested in a lot of color, a lot of vibrancy: nature! And, I'm not very interested in painting reality, per se. I'm representing reality, in color, in form, in line: in black and white and in color...”
“This is my dream. To get better, buy an old cottage or something…somewhere, have some dogs, paint and live out the rest of my days happy...”
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