|
Rock Jackson is largely a self-taught artist whose media are charcoal, pastel, oil and acrylic. Favorite subjects include fly-fishing and western ranch and cowboy scenes.
Rock was born and raised in Southeastern Utah and educated at Stanford University and the University of Michigan Medical School where completed his internship and residency. His residency training was abruptly interrupted, however, when he was called upon to serve his country during the Korean conflict.
Rock retired in 1991 from a 35-year surgical practice in Tucson but later accepted part-time teaching positions with the University of Arizona Medical School and Veteran's Administration Hospital.
The artist says, "I learned free hand sketching from my father, who was a gifted amateur artist." His dad was well known in the Price and Moab areas of Utah. Rock would, in his later years, study art formally under a number of distinguished Tucson and Scottsdale Art School artists.
|
