• Gary Ozias
• 1234 Main St.
• Kansas City MO 64108
• 1234567890
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Although born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947, Gary Ozias spent most of his early years in rural Massachusetts. He is a retired language arts teacher who has been interested in painting and other visual arts since he was a young boy. He graduated from Worcester State College in Massachusetts in 1969, taught for a brief period on the East Coast and then moved to Downs, Kansas where he has lived ever since. He has a wife Wilma and two daughters, Moira and Megan. His father Stanley was one of the foremost engravers in the United States and gave Gary much of his early encouragement and training. After putting his art aside for a number of years, he picked it up again in the late 1970’s, and has been drawing and painting since then. He began his professional art career by opening the Prairie Wind Art Gallery and Studio in 1983, but it actually remained an avocation as he continued to devote his full energies to his teaching until 2001. Upon his retirement, he and Wilma remodeled the art gallery in downtown Downs where he now paints full time, leaving sometimes for plein aire painting excursions. He is comfortable with either studio or outdoor painting. He has won numerous awards and recognitions for his painting. His work hangs in public and private collections from coast to coast in the United States and also in a number of other countries. He works in a variety of media, but most of his recent work has been in oils and pastels.. His painting is representational but also has a painterly touch to it. He loves to capture the essence and feel of the weather conditions which envelop a landscape. His subjects range from American landscapes to wildlife and still life. He paints on location wherever he travels. He is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and a Master Pastelist in the MidAmerica Pastel Society. He also belongs to Oil Painters of America, Pastel Society of Colorado, and Kansas Academy of Oil Painters. His pieces find favor with jurors and purchasers alike. He considers himself fortunate to be able to paint full time, doing the thing that he loves. He hopes that others will find the same enjoyment from viewing his work as he does in painting it.

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