SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Bob Doucette directed many popular animated children’s programs including the PBS SPROUT hits Chloe’s Closet and Dive Olly Dive. Doucette has also worked on such award-winning shows as Clifford’s Puppy Days, Stephen Spielberg Presents: Tiny Toon Adventures and Stephen Spielberg Presents: Animaniacs. His independently animated films won him many prestigious awards and honors and his MFA thesis film Pink Triangle is in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library.
Doucette has worn many titles as an artist from set designer to animator and has a wide variety of interest. What started as a career in puppetry segued into a doll-making hobby. His Ben Franklin doll, created for the White House Christmas tree in 1999, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. Many of his dolls are in the private collection of Demi Moore and have been featured in magazines articles, TV programs and sold in galleries.
For the last ten years Doucette has been exhibiting and selling his paintings and sculptures in galleries. Bob is very grateful for the opportunity to work with Disney Fine Arts as Walt Disney has always been his biggest inspiration.
Born in Waterville, Maine, educated at Rhode Island School of Design and has a master’s degree in animation from Cal ARTS and at present lives in Peoria Illinois with his husband Tom.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Bob Doucette
The internet has broken open a pandora’s box of information that has been laid bare for all to consume. For a visual artist it is a treasure trove of imagery from art history to modern pop culture that dazzles the mind. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of (nightmares too) and I like to cull my favorite shapes and colors together in a hodgepodge of imagery and then systematically organize “like” things and discard dissimilar things into a cohesive design to tell my story.
I prefer to handcraft my acrylic paintings in the old fashion analog way to express my taste for seeing the artists hand at work but am not against planning things in photoshop beforehand. I try to quickly grab my ephemeral notions and get them down on paper and pad before they evaporate. I believe our dreams are not at all haphazard, they are a way for your analytical mind to sort through images of the day, themes of your life and deep-seated neurosis and make sense of them. I try to cull those dream images and flights of fancy together until they are the perfect metaphors for what I am feeling.
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