Greg Rapier
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The clock
ticked
As
the days passed, and became weeks, then months, and then years, Greg’s
life would go down different paths. As in every life we take turns down our
road of life. Greg’s Mother and Father were the guiding influence as they
walked down the road with him until he was on solid ground.
Greg
started working in his Father’s service station at the age of 9 and
became interested in automobiles. More to the point, racing cars became
Greg’s passion. Greg’s Father also liked to paint and there was an
oil painting (just one) that his Father painted and it hung in the home. That
one painting of a farm scene would lead Greg down a different path and would
fuel a different passion.
Greg’s
interest in racing would lead him to become the
Then
after finishing high school he went to another team and learned about dirt
track racing. On the team Greg was
helping, a friend with his friend’s race car. To his sheer joy, he was
even able to drive that car a few times.
Although
they were not the fast kids on the block they did have a lot of fun and Greg
was able to do what he really wanted to do (that was drive). Then Greg became a
member of a super modified team. That team was doing ok running mid pack. After a few years the young racing
enthusiast became the
As all this was going on that other
passion was in Greg’s heart and was growing little by little. He knew
that the day would come that racing would be replaced with a need to create art
instead of fast cars. Greg is self
taught both as a racer and an artist.
That
day came at the end of the 1988 racing season and Greg loaded up the race car
for the last time and walked out of one passion and into another. That day an
artist was born. The birth didn’t happen over night. The change started
with that one oil painting hanging in his home and when he was twelve, sick in
bed with the measles. Greg’s Mother gave him a paint by number set to do
while recovering. He did the
painting and fell in love with the process. His Mother purchased another set
and that lead to how to paint books and to copying those paintings and on and
on till art was his passion.
On
The
latest news is that Greg is now being mentored by the world famous artist that
painted the portrait for the Whitehouse of President Johnson. This is very
exciting to have an artist of the caliper of Jack White helping Greg to take
his artwork to the next level. So you will be seeing exciting things coming
from Greg in the future.
The latest as of May 5, 2007 Greg is setting up to do the Good Guys
custom car shows. Greg will be at the
Gregory
Rapier
Twain Harte
Ca,
(209)
586-9635