Born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, Nelson studied to be an architect earning a degree from Arizona State University. After practicing for 15 years, during which time he owned a successful firm and won numerous awards, Nelson Boren made the pivotal decision to leave the field in 1980 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time western artist. Nelson credits his life-long love of both art and math with his dual-career path of architecture and fine art. His mother, a painter herself, was his earliest influence. As a teenager in the “psychedelic ‘60s”, the only art posters his mother allowed Nelson Boren to hang in his bedroom where those he painted himself. Later...Read More About Western Artist Nelson Boren
Recomended Artists
Categories
