170:. "In learning to ride the waves, I also learned to respect the ocean...to feel its pulse with all five of my senses, and to feel its spirit at an extra-sensory level. It was a blend of magic and realism that I wanted to communicate in my paintings," says Nelson. Inspired by this "overwhelming experience", he came up with the idea of painting above- and below-water scenes on the same canvas. It was there that he began painting Hawaiian landscapes and seascapes. When he was twenty-two years old, he moved from Oahu to Maui. He spent a great deal of time surfing, kayaking and scuba diving in Maui, while continuing to paint and study the landscape of the Hawaiian Islands.
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The creator of "Two Worlds
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Nelson began creating murals, sculptures, landscapes, seascapes, and experimenting with still life early in his life. When he was 15, his ninth grade history teacher, David
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Nelson grew a business around his art, Robert Lyn Nelson
Studios, which was worth $ 5 million by the mid-1990s. He used commercial advertising in print, on radio and television to promote his paintings.
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