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Paul Hampton Crockett is a native and lifetime resident of the wholly unlikely metropolis of Miami, Florida. He began drawing and playing with color at the age of 3, and has yet to stop.
The artist most usually paints on site, outside, freely borrowing color from the rich palette of the sub-tropical place always known as home and now deeply part of his heart. His night paintings are done by the light of gas lantern, under the stars. In an area of the country already extraordinary for its growth yet under continued urban assault, he is driven to seek out the increasingly rare places still sacred in their wildness, and reflecting ancient and soothing rhythms. In even a brief span of years, he has observed that several of the subjects captured in his paintings no longer exist.
He has built his reputation through the periodic public display of his work in one-man shows, some attended by over a thousand guests, public displays and group events, and dealt directly with interested collectors through his home studio. His work has received public exposure in numerous ways, including the use of twelve of his paintings in a calendar created and distributed nationally in the tens of thousands by Stadtlanders/ CVS ProCare Pharmacy in 2001, illustrating a national advertising campaign by American Express Travel Services, and the Poster Artist for the 1998 Miami Beach Festival of the Arts. That framed poster was later displayed prominently on national t.v. as part of the set for the CBS sitcom, Good Morning Miami.
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