Design Spotlight: Jeff Bossler

Today’s Design Spotlight shines on Jeff Bossler of Alpine Seaside, who makes such lovely landscapes!

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My favorite card this month is a photo of Mt. Shuksan that I took last September on my birthday.  This mountain has been my center of inspiration since childhood.  Tooled with a brand new camera and the successful results of two eye operations, these things served as powerful reminders of the many great gifts that we are so blessed by, including the gift of sight and a landscape which speaks the language of beauty.  What gives me great joy is the ability to share this with others.  Also known as “Jeff Bush”, I have always strived to reflect an inspirational sense of “heightened reality.”

Born in eastern Pennsylvania, my non-stop daydreaming was always on the west coast.  I moved west in the mid-1970s, working seasonal jobs including 7 years with the US Forest Service and various nursery, landscape, and agricultural jobs.  During that 13 year period is when I accomplished most of the pen drawings and oil paintings you can find as greeting cards exclusively in my GCU store.  I also just began my Alpine Seaside Landscapes prints and canvasses store at Society 6.  My personal website is at alpineseaside.com.

Entrepreneur and father of two, I’ve worked and lived on Orcas Island in Washington State with my wife for the past 24 years.   Now that the nest is empty, it’s time to re-enter my world of artistic expression again.  As a “traditional artist” who remembers black and white TV, I am very excited by today’s tools of creativity and the marketing available today.  GCU for me is a journey into a new world of creative challenges and fascinating possibilities.

One such challenge is the “return for edits” process.  Once dreading it, I’ve come to realize this exercise works to strengthen an area of my mind which, as with many “artists”, gets little or no attention, but is essential to marketing success.  In this and several other ways, GCU functions to stimulate curiosity and a sense of personal adventure for which I am thankful.