BIKER OLD SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jeff Nobles
Jeff grew up on the Confederated Salish and Kooteni reservation. This influenced his art and perspective dramaticly. For 25 plus years his work dealt mostly with the old west. The artwork of Charlie Russell was and is a constant inspiration. Jeff was fortunate to have grown into adulthood with Hank Lawshe and Larry Janoff as mentors and friends.
NW Wyo. college, gave Jeff solid fundamentals to build on. Shortly after, he was fortunate enough to do a workshop with Joe Abbrescia. This was pivotal for his career.
Jeff's work has included museum installations, sculptures, murals, carvings, bead-work, carved frames and more. His career has spanned 35+ years. During this time he has shown in galleries and shows throughout the western US.
At NW Wyo. college his anthropology professor (Doug Nelson), expressed a philosophy that would stick with Jeff for life. Dr. Nelson's idea was "The difference between a small piece of paper (an associate's degree) and a large piece of paper (a doctorate) was the amount of accuracy one needed to speak each time he opened his mouth" He challenged Jeff to approach his art with this in mind. To this day the challenge is a major guide in his work.
The multi-medium abilities of this artist runs the gamut from graphite, W.C., Oil, Bronze, Carving to compo and furniture building.
Finally, the crew is putting together a line of decor aimed at the biker brotherhood. There is a void of quality items to express the bikers' love and passion for their lifestyle . With this in mind he is offering his fine art in affordable pieces with the classic biker in mind. If you need something we are not offering please let us know.
About B.O.S.P
Have you ever set and looked at a vintage photo day dreaming of days gone by? How about "Boy those were the days", most of us history lovers or even just the dreamer type have experienced one of these or a version of the nostalgic fantisy.
Realizing this Drew and Jeff decided lets be part of the past. What's more lets make it possible for others to join us there. So they set down and started looking at the obsticles to make this a reality. Our first problem is / was lack of money. Well we are use to dealing with that particular set back. Secondly we didn't have the vintage motorcycles. This became only a minor problem. We decided to build our own. Our fist motor complete the second coming out of rubber today. Next was the frame and forks.
Well things have a way of changing. After the motor was built and cast a wal;l appeared. There was not a pipe bender to be found in Cottonwood. Thanks to Face Book a copy of a 1912 Indian was found out of Florida. Harkin Cycles there is now a high quality reproduction is now available. So we aqre now building a 1912 for our photo shoots.
One more thing, we have obtained another domain. www.bikeroldtimephotos.com it is at this time not operational but in short order it will be where we post our clients photos.
Hank Krauter
Hank's passion for motorcycles began even before uncle Sam invited him to come and experience Vietnam. Sidetracked by 4 fun tours on uncle sam's dime it would be a few years till he could resume the lifestyle that would come to define Hank. Venomous Motorcycles is the brain child of Hank's. The two business's dovetail well and it is great to have someone a part of B.O.S. with the knowledge and experiences that Hank brings to the table.
Pam Case Nobles is a true partner and will be very visable when the doors finally open. The time is close but she is ready.