Eagle Eye Studio: Lithography and Bronze sculpture


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	"I see art and music as an extension of our inner spirit, which we can use to the benefit of others, sharing the colors to brighten this sometimes gray and gloomy world."
David Lundquist, hang gliding in Oregon

I have been drawing, painting and playing music most of my life. My childhood was spent in Palo Alto, California, near Stanford University, during some crazy political times. While at Cubberly High School I developed a great interest in learning music and art. There was an alternative high school program with cool teachers and an excellent Art Department. If it was not for them, I probably would have never graduated. In the summer of 1975 I won an art scholarship to the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.

I started doing rock n' roll posters to promote various bands at Stanford Music Hall, Foothill College and the San Francisco Chronicle. I became a full-fledged starving artist in 1976 when I moved to La Honda, Ca. While learning to play rock n' roll and blues at Boots & Saddle Inn and Apple Jacks, I passed the rest of my time painting and drawing, anything and everything to stay happy, a virtual "hippie heaven" it was. My work with The Grateful Dead started in 1982, via contacts with an old friend Peter Lee and new friend Calico. The Dead were looking for a Native American design at the time, for three Red Rocks shows. The shirts I designed sold out in a day, and resulted in me producing six more shirts, designing the stage set for the Veneta show in 1982 (Ken Kesey and Grateful Dead Picnic). During that time some of my other projects included artwork for The Dinosaurs, Bill Graham Presents, Cowboys For Indians Benefit, Circus Underwater, BMW of America, and working with Joe Sagara at San Francisco Light Works.

In the following years I moved to northern Mendocino County, then up to Horse Creek in Siskyou County. Needing a little more elbow room, I ventured into the wilderness of Wallowa County in northeast Oregon where I now own a large horse ranch and raise Appaloosa horses, malamute/wolf dogs and fire breathing dragons.

Last year I decided to progress into three-dimensional art - with a sixteen foot long (spanning from tongue to tail) fire breathing dragon cast in bronze. Activated by remote control, she shoots eighteen foot flames from her mouth while peering at you with her vividly colored red eyes. The pyrotechnics were created by my son and best friend, Frisco Rose. The project took six months to complete. Since her birth, we have taken "Precious" on the road, appearing at various venues and parades, as well as the 1994 Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. We are looking forward to more shows in the future and hope to eventually create a total of seven limited edition dragons for sale.

Some of my most recent projects have included cover art for Harvey Mandel's records "Snakes and Stripes" and "Emerald Triangle", artwork for the Good Medicine Concert Series in Hawaii, and a life-size bronze of a Native American woman lifting to the sky - an Aurora Borealis-type phenomenon created from electricity and gasses. My life is spent painting and doing bronze sculpting almost every day, when I am not horse packing in the wilderness, kayaking, or hang gliding with my favorite friends, red-tailed hawks and golden eagles.

Thanks to my mother, father, sister and brother, all of my friends and loved ones over the years (you know who you are) for your support, and most of all thanks to the Great Spirit and Mother Earth who freely give so much beauty and inspiration to those who open their hearts, and minds.

"May your lives be filled with joy and your spirits soar on the wings of an eagle."

Love and light,
David Lundquist