Gary and Kathwren Jenkins

Art Brokerage: Gary and Kathwren Jenkins American Artists: Gary Jenkins was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1962 he graduated from the well known four year Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida. Kathwren Jenkins was born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Southern California. Kathwren began oil painting at the age of 18. She majored in art in high school and attended art courses in the evening at a junior college. Kathwren continued to paint and learn on her own all through the 1960's. In the mid-1970's, she became an art teacher at a studio in Nevada, where she was living at the time. In 1980, she met her husband, Gary Jenkins. Kathwren began to team-teach with him, travelling nationally to about 30 states per year. Gary and Kathwren made their names as televisions #1 floral painting artists and have taught painting internationally for more than 40 years. Their workshops and TV-shows are legendary. During the early 1980's, Gary Jenkins had the opportunity to become one of the first painting instructors on television in the United States. This television show, called "Jenkins Art Studio", aired on about 130 television stations annually, for over 16 years, making it the longest running art show to produce a new series each year. During his long 45 plus year professional career, Gary has demonstrated at many major art conventions, shown in the most well-known art galleries in California. Many of his original paintings have been sold to private collectors national and internationally. Since 2007 Gary and his artist wife Kathwren are hosting their international television series "The Beauty of Oil Painting", shown on PBS and several European public broadcasters. Listings wanted.