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Russell Burton Anderson –RB Anderson, Author of TwoWorlds: The Art of Dying/Art a metaphysical fiction about mankind’s struggle against themselves in a fast-paced inter-dimensional romp for the very survival of the human soul. Earth is balanced on the razor edge between darkness and light. Tipping to one side allows mankind the ability to graduate to a higher state of consciousness. Slipping to the other side leads to self-extinction. Unknowingly Steele and Celeste a young couple wanders into another dimension where our souls go after death, there they find their deceased grandmother. They soon learn that they have a unique ability to cross between dimensions, where they also meet helpful advanced souls Star and Jaguar, who explain that this plane of existence is mankind’s evolution to a higher universal understanding. Furthermore secrets to this dimension were given to them in notebooks written by grandmother Louise before passing on. They are suddenly thrust into a world of love and deceit, caught between government and church, afterlife and hell, greed and selflessness, youth and experience, where constant conflict forces decisions that will determine man’s existence. TowWorlds was inspired by a series of notebooks written by my grandmother Louise Ann Parrish Anderson, who saw her diagnosis of six months to live as her ‘Greatest Adventure.’ She chronicled the process of dying, sharing insights and wisdom from conversations she had with her Guiding Angels (GA), Soul entities that have lived many lifetimes. The GA’s instructed that the title ‘Dying’ should be changed to ‘Love.’ I have also included excerpts from a series of articles published by the Denver Post, about Louise’s recollections of her life and expectations about her death. This fiction is a unique co-mingling of ideas from Louise and her GA’s in another dimension, interpreted and expressed through a unique tale that I created.

Russell realized his love of art at the early age, painting beside his mother as she traveled across New Mexico as she followed her art career.

A fourth generation artist, RBA’s great grandmother was a poet and published under the name of Parrish, his grandmother Allison Ross was also a writer, his grandfather Burton drew cartoons, and his mother, Van Emery, is a prominent artist in New Mexico where Russell was weaned on paint that today flows through his veins. At 6 years old an oil painting of a Church in Taos was accepted into his first adult art competition at the State Fair. This painting was stolen which to him this was a great complement, that his art was accepted – someone wanted his work enough to steal it!

RBA continued to hone his artistic skills studying with Frank McCulloch and John Jellico. at Colorado Institute of Art, San Francisco Art Institute and

RB Anderson exciting original art and giclée prints hang in collections nationwide

“Through my current work I strive to reveal a glimpse of the subject’s character brought to life in paint. My desire is that when you see the shapes of pure color, returning the light, from the surface of the once white canvas, the viewer will be moved emotionally, and sense the individual’s unique inner story”.

While working in the art store Russ decided he should get a formal art education so he wrote to a number of schools and submitted portfolios. He was accepted to attend Colorado Institute of Art in Denver, where he mentored under John Jellico.

After graduation RB Anderson moved to San Francisco and shared an apartment with friends. After paying some dues creating art and helping launch Jerry Paulsen’s Psyclone Magazine, which along with rock promoter and television producer Dirk Dirksen literally launched many punk and new wave bands playing at The Mabuhay Gardens. From there RB Andersons’ art career began to bloom and he moved into a studio off 7th and Market street in the heart of San Francisco. From that studio helped Herb Green, create Carlos Santana Moonflower (Album) Album along with  The Quintet (V.S.O.P. album) for, Herbie Hancock, Wane Shorter, other art for John Paul Jones (musician), Bill Graham along with a few corporations and some less known music artists, promoters and photographers.

San Francisco was alive with creative juices. Russ spent many hours walking the foot-steps of artists, musicians, writers and poets that preceded him. Many mornings you could find him in the North Beach Caffe Trieste, where you could sense the spirit of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Francis Ford Coppola enjoying the morning sun coming through the windows. You could feel the Beat Culture that preceded the now emerging New Wave movement. Other times he would spend hours lost in the City Lights Bookstore, the studios of friends or galleries that lined the streets of his walk from his studio up the hill to their apartment on Capitol Hill. Sometimes a ramble through The Haight-Ashbury would give the imagination a spark, visualizing just a few years before, The Monterrey Pop Festival and musicians like John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas or the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. Yet other days it was easy to lose the day in one of the many art museums. Many times Russ would attended various drawing, figure, painting or print making classes at San Francisco Art Institute.

Combining the influence of a life-long study of art and a love of music, RBA’s latest colorful watercolors literally seem to jump from the paper. These works display a dynamic play with light and shadow, emanating emotion in color. RB Anderson is an artist of re-emerging acclaim, having studied and exhibited in New Mexico, Colorado, California and Arizona. His paintings are in fine collections throughout the United States.