DON BYRAM

Don was raised in Arkansas and after spending most of his adult and professional years away, moved back in state in 2016. As he says, “probably for the duration”.

His art is centered around photography. It started in college with an old film Pentax and a passion for composition. His midlife was spent earning a living and helping raise a family. In 2005, he picked up his first digital camera and got back to the art side. As time progressed, he has added antique and vintage frames to a majority of his work. In quite a bit of his new work, he has added quirky, found, antique, physical pieces to add dimension and layered meaning to the core image. Frequently, the photography is covered either partially or completely by resin instead of the traditional glass.

He owned Don Byram Art, a Gallery and Frame Shop in Commerce, Georgia. He is a Past President of the Athens Photography Guild in Athens, Ga., as well as the Past President of the Conway League of Artists.

He has had solo shows in both Georgia, at The State Botanical Gardens of Georgia, and Arkansas, at galleries in Little Rock and Rogers. His art has been purchased by the Central Arkansas Library System for their permanent collection and pieces of his Galaxy Girl series are in many homes and businesses in the region. He is represented by several galleries in Central Arkansas, NWA, and St. Louis.