Randy Elrod
Randy Elrod is described by his friends as a Renaissance man. A dreamer, artist, writer, mentor and teacher, he enjoys traveling the world, the sacraments of food and wine, and the culinary arts. He loves reading and favorite authors include Ayn Rand, Frederick Buechner, Madeline L'Engle and David McCullough.
He enjoys painting nature and the beauty of the female figure with watercolors and recently served as the artist-in-residence at O'More College of Design in Franklin. Randy revels in the sensory overload of climbing America's highest mountains. He also once navigated the Uganik River with only a tent and raft in grizzly country for a week in the wilderness of Kodiak Island, Alaska. He has completed twenty-three full marathons (yes, 26.2 miles each).
A self-taught artist, Randy began painting in the winter of 2002 at the age of forty-two. A lifelong love affair with graphite sketching provides the foundation for the watercolors and anchors his distinctive style. Originals and limited edition prints can be purchased at randyelrodart.com. All profits benefit his charity, Creative Community, Inc, a non-profit that teams real-world master teachers as mentors for aspiring artists of all genres. (www.kalein.org)
“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ”
“Have you ever had an experience with God as wild as your most incredible sexual experience?”
“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ”