Radeaux's Biography

Pueblo based artist Radeaux paints birds and other life-size fauna with patterns and colors in a unique style that is both widely recognized and collected. He has watched birds longer than he painted them, studying their flight and form years before transferring the beauty to canvas. His love of birds started with the coming-of-age trip to the Monta Vista National Wildlife Refuge.”It was spring migration time and you could drive right up to golden eagles, shore birds and ducks. It was an eye opening experience for me,” he recalls. Illustrator of the comprehensive 600 page hardcover book Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas, he is considered to be both a field or ornithologist as well as an artist known for his paintings of birds accurate in all details from, feather patterns to eye color. He likes to explore the patterns and geometry found in nature, explaining “it is a style unique to me - a combination of detail and restraint, repetition and rhythm”. He's known for painting historic bird quilt patterns, a unique blend of quilting, avian art and Escher like geometric designs on canvas.  

A native of Pueblo, Radeaux acquired his single-name handle at st. Olaf College in Minnesota. The biology student from ColoRADO became Radeaux. It stuck. He is currently co-owner of the John Deaux Art Gallery on Union Avenue in PuebloChallenge