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‘Quiet Journey’ Book Release
Art Professor Emeritus Robert Reynolds and Journalism Professor Emeritus Jim Hayes collaborated for “The Art of Robert Reynolds: Quiet Journey,” a 176-page hardbound book now available at online through Cal Poly’s El Corral Bookstore at www.elcorralbookstore.com/books. The book is also a benefit project for the Cal Poly Alumni Association. Copies are available by order online, and on sale at El Corral and at Cal Poly Downtown, and by phone at (805) 756-1161. “Quiet Journey” showcases 178 of Reynolds’ paintings of scenes from Central Coast and the California Sierras, alongside written musings by both Hayes and Reynolds. Played out on the pages of “Quiet Journey” are 35 years of art spanning Reynolds’ career. The watercolor and acrylic works, with occasional renderings in charcoal and graphite, reflect his artist’s eye for detail and his love for rural landscapes. “His paintings are of places that one longs to experience; to touch, to smell, to feel, explains Eileen Hultin, a San Francisco arts patron and Stanford art history graduate who wrote the foreword to the book. Hayes said he welcomed the chance to work with his friend of three decades. “Robert is a grassroots representational artist,” he said. “He is a painstaking craftsman who has mastered his tools so well that his most carefully designed works give the illusion of being offhand.” Reynolds, a Central Coast native and San Luis Obispo resident, taught for 35 years at Cal Poly, and served as the chair of the Art and Design Department. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the President’s Arts Award during his time at the university. He continues to teach painting workshops in the Sierra Nevada and on California’s Central Coast. A sampling of his artwork is on his Web site, www.robertreynoldsart.com. The professor’s paintings have won numerous awards, and been published in art books and national periodicals and are popular with collectors nationwide and abroad. Hayes became a newspaperman after serving in the Navy in the South Pacific during WWII. During his 40-year career, he was a writer and editor for newspapers, and taught at universities in four states and Egypt. For the last 20 years he has also been a consultant, coaching writing and editing for government, private industry, the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times. Former students can catch up with him through his Web site at: www.writeasy.com.
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