Derek Bollen:  

Life (Before I begin writing about my back ground, I am writing this for the benefit of those who were at the 1974 Graduation, and had thought as I did that I did not pass my Post Grad year. Do to a miss understanding on both the Schools and myself, ..... I received my graduation paper two weeks after the School closed. The reason being that I was asked for a second donation of one of my paintings. As you know the School has a right to one of your works on graduation, which I did my third year. I was told if I did that they would not take a second one the following year. Well that is not how it worked out. Now I regret that decision for not compiling to there demands, for I would of like to have share that day with everyone else. Though there was one good thing that came out of that fateful decision. The Painting that had been chosen by the school was years later excepted, for an Art Book on New Zealand Artists through the 60's and 70's. Ironic how a broken heart can be mended by an ill decision, but that often is the fate of young Artists.) Anyway after Art School I went to New Zealand, became a duel Citizen of both Canada and New Zealand. And even had my own Art School for awhile, then got back to painting, for I found I could not do both. I painted my Dreams as well as Landscapes. From there I went to Arizona where I not only painted Dreams, but began to have past dreams come into fruition. I found carvings in stone that I experienced in the Dream actually doing. Here I was around the world in New Zealand dream of something I might of done over a thousands years. It is a nice thought. There was also a Hopi Medicine Man that I sought out and found in the very place I dreamed of him on the Reservation. (This same man later saved my life.) ...Expand for more