Rick Jamison is a composer, musician, artist and writer.
He has produced three CDs over the past three years (The Magic Hour, (Open Spaces and Tales from the Canyon) that feature his work as a songwriter, singer and guitar player.
Rick began playing the guitar at age 9 when he progressed from strumming on a broomstick to learning songs like "Goodbye Old Paint" on his first "real" instrument, a starburst Roy Smeck electric guitar.
Over the years, Rick has built a low-key reputation as an accomplished guitar player with a fast, clean flat-picking style. In 1981, he won second place in the West Coast Flatpicking competition in Norco, California, which he entered on a spontaneous whim. This was the first time he ever stood on a stage in front a large audience and, although he didn't win the contest that day, he knew he'd return to the stage in future years.
On
the art front, Rick continues to create original oil paintings, field
studies and pastels as time allows. He became a serious student of
plein air landscape painting in the mid-1990s and has pursued this
interest in his free time ever since.
In the late 1970s, Rick's work as a political cartoonist for the Eastern Shore Times earned him competitive recognition from the Maryland/Delaware/D.C. Press Assocation.
Professionally, Rick is employed as a senior writer and global intranet editor at Synopsys, a software company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
A native of Washington, D.C., Rick currently lives in Sebastopol, California with his dog, Cedar the "Sebastopoodle."