From Artistic Roots to Creative Evolution

Richard K. Bacon was born on the Fourth of July in 1960 and grew up in Syracuse, New York. He is the eldest son in a family of eight. His first art exhibition was at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York in 1978 during his senior year of high school at the age of 18. Richard received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 1982, majoring in Graphic Design. For 18 years, he worked in corporate marketing communications in Boston, Mass. and owned his own design firm, Bacon Design Group, Inc. from 1989-2000. In addition to providing commercial art services to a wide variety of clients, Richard continued to explore his love for making fine art and gardening in his free time.

In 1994, Richard received support from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to travel, study and create Japanese style art in a Buddhist monastery in Kyoto, Japan. The experience inspired him to establish a greeting card business of his nature photography called EdenArts. Relocating to San Diego, California, in 2000, to pursue fine arts as a full time profession, Richard became a member of The Spanish Village Art Center and won awards for his paintings at the San Diego Art Institute, San Diego Watercolor Society and the Valley Center Arts Association. To help support his fine arts career, Richard then became Head of the Computer Graphic Design Department at Coleman College in 2002.