Peter Gumaer Ogden
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Visual Artist and Writer |
| Location | Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | I am 50 years old and live in Santa Fe. I was raised on a farm 65 miles north of NYC where my father's family lived from 1832 until 1996. I have lived in over 11 states, the Virgin Islands, Mexico and Honduras. I have been to more than 15 countries. I graduated High School from the George School, a Quaker academy. I studied business at U Miami, Coral Gables, Spanish at Middlebury College; and I graduated from Bucknell University in 1981 with a BA in art. I spent 5 months in 1978 with Bucknell based in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. In the 1980's I studied at SVA & FIT in Manhattan. At this time I also comanaged a farm and edited the Middletown Express, an activist historic preservation newsletter in Middletown, NY. I spent most of the 1990's traveling frugally throughout the US by car and in Mexico and Central America. I am a visual artist working with collage, paint, and photography. I live a spartan life at this time. I have not owned a TV in 6 years and rarely watch it. I rarely drive, preferring to save the environment by walking and taking the bus. |
| Interests | Visual art, antiques, Buddhism, horticulture, architecture, historic preservation, genealogy, history, enduring literature, business, photography, travel, Latin America, healthy lifestyle and diet, hiking, travel. |
| Favorite movies | The Yellow Rolls Royce, Ruthless People, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Z. |
| Favorite music | Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Alice Cooper, Bowie, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Shirley Bassey, Donna Summer, Scorpions. |
| Favorite books | Gone With the Wind, War and Peace--Tolstoy, Dr Zhivago; Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Antichrist--Neitzsche; Thorn Birds, East of Eden--Steinbeck, Return of the Native--Hardy, Crime and Punishment, Sartre, Pearl Buck, Pillars of the Earth--Follett. |