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Rob Hendon’s Art is Changing the Way Nashville Looks
Local Painter Is Making His Mark on Nashville's Growth

Artist Rob Hendon, known in the art community as “The Original Guitar Painter” for his representations of one of Nashville’s most treasured instruments, is helping to aesthetically create Nashville’s landscape as it undergoes an intense growth spurt. As Nashville welcomes new residents and new businesses to its city at record rates, Hendon is keeping the legacy of the Music City alive through his use of vivid color and extraordinary texture in the creation of his distinctive, guitar-focused art placed throughout the city.

Hendon has been commissioned to brighten Nashville’s historic Music Row with his craft. His art, from smaller series paintings to larger-than-life pieces, can be seen up and down the heart of the city’s entertainment industry with installs in the lobbies of offices like Warner Brothers Records, Warner Brothers Studios Nashville, Sony Records and Sony Music Publishing, Oceanway Studios, Big Machine Records, BMI Nashville, Billboard Magazine, and Gibson Guitars. Nashville hotels, like Omni Nashville and The Hutton Hotel, have also chosen to adorn their walls with “Hendons."

SESAC’s new Nashville headquarters boasts a 24-foot x 24-foot piece fashioned from 40 art canvases that serves as the focal point of the building. Fascinated by how his art represents the city of Nashville, the Tennessee State Museum sought out Hendon and recently acquired a painting that appeared on the set of the ABC-TV show “Nashville” to add to their collection. Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt installed two large paintings from Hendon to hang in their recently added Seacrest Studios, a state-of-the-art, multimedia studio built in partnership with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation.

Long-time collector, Hall of Fame songwriter Craig Wiseman sums up the Rob Hendon phenomenon, “Rob’s work is emblematic of our city and times. He is everywhere!”

The former high level music industry executive marvels at the movement that his art has spawned, “It seems like yesterday that I was just indulging in my hobby and selling a painting here and there,” said Hendon, who has been focusing full time on his artwork for close to two decades.

Hendon’s work is also a favorite of music industry influencers. It is particularly flattering for Hendon that recording artists and former music industry colleagues have become avid collectors of his work, “I love that Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan and the late great Les Paul are among my collectors. It’s so gratifying because I am just such a big fan of these guys. The fact that they also like what I do is humbling.”

About Rob Hendon

Rob Hendon’s name is synonymous with guitars in the art world. His work covers the United States and several other countries. Although he does paint other instruments, musical themes, and floral pieces, his wildly popular guitar art can be seen in offices and hotels throughout the city of Nashville including a ten foot guitar statue honoring Roy Orbison. Hendon's work has been exhibited at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Cowboy Hall of Fame. It has appeared in many television shows on networks such as ABC, ABC Family, CMT, HGTV, GAC, The History Channel, The Golf Channel and Palladia.

For more information about Rob Hendon, please visit www.robhendon.com.