The Artist Hines is a full time artist living and painting in Sausalito, California. Hines began as a pencil artist producing meticulous figurative and surrealistic renderings on paper. In 1994 Hines began exploring oil painting and moved from Atlanta Georgia to Kalamazoo Michigan where he soon began creating his surrealistic canvases. There he participated in group shows and juried exhibitions and in 1995 had his first one man show.

In 1997 Hines returned to Atlanta and continued exhibiting locally. Eventually moving into the Telephone Factory artist complex participating in their annual open studios and hosting monthly soirees in his apartment for artists, writers and poets. It was during this period that Hines began exploring abstraction. Bored with the rigidity of representational painting he began studying artists from the New York school of abstract expressionism particularly the artists Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman and Franz Kline.

In 2003 Hines moved to the Bay area to be with his now wife, Dinene. He joined the Artists Guild of San Francisco and began regularly exhibiting his abstract paintings. Hines’ abstract paintings have evolved to include mixed medium, collage, figurative abstraction and what he terms “intuitive painting.” Hines participates in numerous festivals, performs paintings demonstrations and teaches Intuitive Abstract Painting to groups and privately.

Hines states that the greatest inspiration for his work is simply that combination of freedom and risk involved in producing abstract paintings where attention is focused upon expression and exploring the materials rather than manipulating them to render objects in a painting. In his own words: “I approach painting as a purely emotional physical experience.”

Hines' work is in collections throughout the United States and can be seen on his website www.theartisthines.com. Hines is former President of The Artists Guild of San Francisco.

Selected Exhibitions
Unveiling - 12 Artists To Watch In 2011, Marin Art Gallery San Rafael. Ca. 2010
Marin Art Festival, San Rafael, Ca. June 2010
Marin Art Festival, San Rafael, Ca. June 2009
ICB, Industrial Center Building, Open Studios, Sausalito Ca. May 2009
Marin Art Salon, San Rafael, Ca. May 2009
Utrecht Art Supplies “Resource Guide Launch Party", S.F. February 2009
Menlo Park Art Festival, Menlo Park Ca. October 2008
Montclair Art Festival, Oakland Ca. October 2008
Walnut Creek Fine Arts Festival, September 2008
Montclair Art Festival, Oakland Ca. June 2008
Marin Art Festival, San Rafael June 2008
Walnut Creek Fine Arts Festival, April 2008
Sundance “Kabuki” Theater, San Francisco March 2008
Artisans Gallery - “Word For Word”, San Rafael, Ca. February 2008
Boswell Gallery - “Moments Before You Sleep”, Atlanta, Ga. February 2008
Sausalito ArtWalk – Sausalito, Ca. September 2007
Artisans Art Gallery - “All Things Big and Small”, San Rafael, Ca. September 2007
Artisans Art Gallery - “Abstract Assumptions”, San Rafael, Ca. February 2007
Boswell Gallery - “All Nudes,” Atlanta, Ga., July 2006
Caledonia Street Fair, Sausalito, Ca. May 2006
Burlingame Art Festival, Burlingame, Ca. June 2005
Caledonia Street Fair, Sausalito, Ca. May 2005