Rainer Andreesen Studio Visit with Visual Language Magazine as told to Dave Justus.
"Prince Rupert is, quite literally, the end of the road for a coastal island on the northwestern coast of British Columbia, 500 miles north of Vancouver, Canada. I was born there in 1963, and spent an interesting childhood in this remote, unique, relatively wealthy town. Prince Rupert was basically a fishing village at a time where there was a great deal of money to be had in that industry. I found myself attending high school with friends that made $250,000 in a summer fishing. Instinctively, though, I knew at a young age that theirs was not the life I wanted, and so I tried to find what interested me in a path to my own happiness.
Art was my salvation. I felt truly at home in my heart while drawing or painting. I had no idea of where it would lead me, yet somehow I knew that it was my ticket to see the world beyond the small island on which I grew up on."
