Hi there.  Welcome to my web-site.

About me.  I was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, growing up there is dust between my toes walking bare-footed to the fishing hole under Free Ferry Road.  I love the country life and am a country boy at heart.  After drawing portraits of my Granddad at 7 years old, my parents nudged me in the direction of Art.  Being pretty much of a flop in most all of my other studies, I excelled in Art going on to the Memphis Academy of Arts in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating with a BA in Painting.  I received a scholarship from the Duesseldorf Kunst Akademie in Duesseldorf, Germany and moved there, studying with many renowned European Artists for 5 years.  I recieived a MA from the Academie.  

After graduation, I worked for 3 years as an Art Director at Gramm & Grey Advertising Agency moving on to become an Illustrator and Comp-Artist for all the major agencies in Germany.  I moved back to my wonderful America settling here in Saint Louis, Missouri.  (In Duesseldorf, it rains or is misting most every day.  It is dark and grey with only a week or two of real Summer a year!!!)  I moved back home because I missed our big blue sky and sunny weather.

In Saint Louis, I worked for most all the major ad-agencies establishing myself as a Comp-Artist.  After years of diminishing work, the computer put me totally out of that business.  During that time, I had discovered my love for dancing and music beginning DJ-ing and competing as an Imperial Swing Dancer.  I started JIM'S DANCES at the Concord Farmers Club in 1998 and made it the most popular swing dance in St. Louis.  I left Concord in 2002 because of the prevailant back-stabbing politics there.  In 2003, I moved on to start Country & Western Dances in Saint Charles.  We have a great fun time every Wednesday night at the Trinity Hall, 4689 N. Highway 94, 63301-------COME ON OUT AND DANCE WITH US.   You will have fun.

During all my travels, working, dancing, DJ-ing and having fun, I have always worked on my Art, my one true love.  I have been painting PORTRAITS as long as I can recall and love it.  All mediums work for me and I enjoy creating with them.  

I hope you will enjoy my web-site and have some fun.

Jim Horne