Roy Butler:  

Life Roy Butler, a self taught artist, paints in the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, located in the mountains of central Mexico. Born in Fresno, California in 1932. He attended San Jose State University. He served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Korean War. After leaving the service he became an airline pilot for Pan American World Airways retiring as the managing director of flight training in 1990. He then worked for the University of Texas as a research scientist in the Psychology Department until moving to San Miguel in 2000 It was not until 1965 that Roy’s interest in the fine arts bloomed. Roy became the director of the Creative Arts Guild in Los Gatos, California. He also opened the Opera House Gallery, with locations in Los Gatos and on Union Street in San Francisco. At this time, serious work on his painting had begun. Although still an emerging artist, he won first prize in 1965 San Juan Bautista Annual. That same year, he also received the Special Award at the Saratoga Art Annual. In 1967 he moved to New York. While in New York he won first prize in the professional classification at the Locust Valley, New York Annual. Early in 1968 he moved to Roswell, New Mexico, where he was instrumental in the opening of a Community Art Center. In Roswell, Roy had his first one man show with work executed in 1968. Also whil...Expand for more