Jim Warren

(American, b.1949)

Jim Warren was born in 1949 in Long Beach, California.

Jim started his career through the 1970s as a fine artist, winning first place awards at large outdoor art shows in California. Although inspired by some of the great artists of all time such as Salvador Dalí, Norman Rockwell, and Rembrandt, Jim is mostly self-taught and prides himself on his famous advice to aspiring artists, “To hell with the rules…paint what you like.”

During the 1980s, Jim pursued his high school dream of painting album cover art, creating works for stars as Alice Cooper, Prince and Bob Seger, the latter winning a Grammy award for best album package for the cover of Seger’s “Against the Wind” album, which reached #1 on the Billboard 200. In addition to album covers, he has painted hundreds of magazine illustrations, movie posters, and book covers.

The 90′s ushered in a new focus, that of the environment and saving the earth. Jim painted “Earth…Love it or Lose it” which received critical acclaim and was featured on numerous magazines, billboards and shirts. It also became a popular visual representation for the global environmental movement. Also during this time, Jim began what he refers to as “personalized paintings,” incorporating celebrities and friends into his work.

In 2004, Jim’s collaborations with Disney were released as fine art prints. Jim continues to paint Disney characters and his own unique interpretations of Disney characters to this day. In 2009 Jim began painting celebrities for the Fame-Wall project in New York and Hollywood, painting portraits and unveiling them with the likes of The Beach Boys, John Stamos, Kelsey Grammer, Kristin Chenoweth, Brooke Shields and others.

Jim considers his greatest accomplishment to date to be the huge response he has received from around the world from his fans sharing how his work has inspired them and made their days a little brighter.