Trevor Southey was born in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), Africa in 1940. His African heritate can be traced to European colonists who settled in Cape Town, South Africa in the 17th Century. In 1965 he immigrated to the US, retaining a deep sense of his African and British origins. His formal training includes two years at Brighten College of Art in Sussex, England; a year in Durban, South Africa; and two degrees obtained from Brigham Young University, Utah (1967 and 1969). He taught at the University through 1976 and has since pursued his career independently. In 1978 he married Elaine Fish of Utah. Their mutual vision and their four children became a vital and critical part of his life and work. For fifteen years, together they evolved a personal sense of beauty and place in Alpine, Utah. Until his recent move to California, where he currently resides in San Francisco with two of his children, he had concentrated his professional experience in the Rocky Mountain West. His work is included in several institutional and private collections in the US and throughout the world. His media include drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Several major commissions in various parts of the country have dominated his production in the last few years, demonstrating a sharply increasing interest in his work.
Trevor Southey was born in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), Africa in 1940. His African heritate can be traced to European colonists who settled in Cape Town, South Africa in the 17th Century. In 1965 he immigrated to the US, retaining a deep sense of his African and British origins. His formal training includes two years at Brighten College of Art in Sussex, England; a year in Durban, South Africa; and two degrees obtained from Brigham Young University, Utah (1967 and 1969). He taught at the University through 1976 and has since pursued his career independently. In 1978 he married Elaine Fish of Utah. Their mutual vision and their four children became a vital and critical part of his life and work. For fifteen years, together they evolved a personal sense of beauty and place in Alpine, Utah. Until his recent move to California, where he currently resides in San Francisco with two of his children, he had concentrated his professional experience in the Rocky Mountain West. His work is included in several institutional and private collections i
n the US and throughout the world. His media include drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Several major commissions in various parts of the country have dominated his production in the last few years, demonstrating a sharply increasing interest in his work.