Cross stitch products in this collection are based on the original images of artworks of Dempsey Essick licensed to us by Art Licensing International, Inc.
Dempsey Essick has never strayed far from his roots. He grew up a farm boy near the small town of Welcome, NC and lives in the house where he was born. He learned to drive on his Dad’s Red Belly Ford Tractor and remembers pulling tobacco as a young boy. Dempsey won his first blue ribbon in art when he was in the first grade and continued winning art competitions all through the school years. He graduated from Forsyth Technical Institute where he studied mechanical drawing and design and then worked for years as a Design Engineer. At age thirty-five, and with no formal training in art, he left the nine-to-five world and started on the voyage to become a full time artist.
Dempsey’s work has shown in the National Academy of Design in New York City and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Water Media Exhibition. Dempsey is an official B.A.S.S. Artist and his work routinely appears in the NC National Wildlife Calendar. Dempsey is most proud of his signature membership in the 90 year old National Watercolor Society.
His labor intensive watercolors are comprised of literally tens of thousands of brush strokes. He takes no shortcuts when it comes to the meticulous detail that is the hallmark of an “Essick Painting.” Frequently referred to as the Hummingbird Artist because of the hidden hummer images featured in his paintings, Dempsey’s gallery carries an extended line of hummingbird gift items that is unmatched.
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