Bob LeFevre, a resident of Seabrook Island and
Salem, South Carolina, retired from a successful
career in business at the age of 55 to pursue his
passion…oil painting. Since he was a child, he loved
the water and everything related to it. It was
natural that his paintings from the beginning would
depict scenes of life on and near the oceans and
lakes he would visit throughout his life.
Bob’s painting career began when, at the urging of
his 4th grade teachers, he was enrolled
in private art classes. Here, at this early age, he
began to develop his perceptual skills as an artist
learning the fundamentals of rendering and depiction
of values in a representational way.
Throughout his elementary and
high school days, Bob continued his private lessons.
He joined every art club and organization he could
and began winning awards for his talents. One of
these was a sculpture scholarship at a local
academy. He enjoys sculpting
and carving to this day. At the age of eighteen, Bob
took private lessons from a retired sea captain in
Cape Cod, Mass. where he painted his first clipper
ship. It was at this moment in his life that his
passion for painting scenes of the sea was born.
Bob attended Colgate University where majored in
business taking art as a second major. He earned
extra money drawing caricatures of his classmates
and selling paintings to teachers and the local
town’s people.
Following graduation, Bob elected to pursue a
business career knowing that he would eventually
return to art on a full time basis. After 33 years
as an executive with Procter and Gamble, PepsiCo and
as an owner of The United States Playing Card Co.,
he retired to pursue his dream...painting full
time!
He is driven to continually develop his skills to a
higher level through life drawing lessons including
nine years at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, plein
air workshops and also by teaching both drawing and
painting classes to teenagers and adults. He is an
active member of the Seabrook Island Art Guild and
the Charleston Art guild.
Bob has recently relocated to Seabrook Island and
maintains studios at his homes in Salem and
Seabrook Island, South Carolina.