Terry Rodgers is a local artist who’s had numerous exhibits throughout the states and Europe.
His paintings are inspired by a “fantasy culture” of individuals who outwardly appear to lead one specific lifestyle while inwardly they are something else entirely.
When I was 19 years old, walking on college campus, an energetic and quirky older man stopped me, telling me he’s an artist and that he’d like for me to pose as an art model for his painting.
I know what you’re thinking..‘I’ve seen this Dateline...it didn’t end well’.
Disheveled hair, wrinkled clothing and no business card, he wrote his website on a torn piece of notebook paper and we went our separate ways.
Driven by curiosity and a glass of wine I googled his website. Looking over each page, this specific painting really caught my attention... Igniting a tiny flame, I believe.
And so I posed for the painting.
