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 Photo by Dale Headrick Greg Sobran was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1947, where his father was a tool designer and engineer. His family moved to Michigan a few years later where he attended public schools. His mother painted portraits professionally and she taught him perspective and color basics from a young age. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His oil painting professor, David Sharp, encouraged him to paint "en plein air" long before its recent re-popularization. After college, Greg did free lance commercial art for a living while continuing to paint outdoors as a hobby. He did this for twenty years with a brief stint operating a cabinet shop and doing custom woodworking. Circumstances lead him to taking the summer off to travel and paint in 1989, and he has made a living from painting since then. He now travels and paints almost constantly with brief periods doing larger works in his studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His favorite painters include the Canadian Group of Seven (his Grandfather was French-Canadian), Albert Marquet, and John Singer Sargent. He has spent two months a year painting in Europe for the last fifteen years, and Greg, his wife Wanda, and their little dog, Jigs, spend extensive periods in South Florida and in the Rocky Mountains. Summers are always spent on Northern Lake Michigan where they have a summer studio and gallery. News from the SobransFor current news from the Sobrans, please check out their new blog!
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