About Me
I grew up in Boulder, Colorado. As a child, I was surrounded by a loving hippy community that cherished nature and lived against the grain. My mom always encouraged me to pursue the arts and helped to nourish my creative side.
As a kid I spent the majority of my time either outside playing in the dirt or sketching my favorite disney characters on scrap pieces of paper. My parents gave me my first camera when I was thirteen. A Yashica 35mm film camera. They offered dark room classes at my middle school and I quickly enrolled in them. I remember making pin hole cameras and trying to turn the family cat into my model.
Throughout my life I have felt the pull to travel. At eighteen, a month after my high school graduation, I packed up and moved back to my family's roots, North Carolina. Where I attended school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with an emphasis in painting. However, I quickly discovered that my true love still belonged to the dark room. I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 2009.
After finishing school, I became restless with Greensboro and longed for something new which is when I made the decision to move to Kailua Kona, Hawaii. I spent the next eight years exploring the Big Island and falling in love with the ocean. Winter of 2017, I made a huge leap of faith to follow a dream. I packed all my belongings and moved from my peaceful Hawaiian home to Bocas Del Toro, Panama. I left the states to work aboard on a traditional gaff rigged schooner. However, that job was short lived and I found myself joining the crew of Sailing Vessel Gertrude. We traded rainy days Bocas for the sun-shining splendour in Grand Cayman. After another adventure to Cuba, myself and my two friends settled into life in the Cayman Islands. I lived aboard 'Gerty", a Morgan 41 Classic, for 9 months before moving on to a 103ft power yacht. This spring I recieved my 100 ton USCG and hope to continue my travels by boat.
I strive to capture the human essence and document our changing oceans. I'm extremely influenced by artists such as: Sally Mann, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange, along with my painting influences of Willem De Kooning, Edouard Manet, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg.
Although old and a bit outdated, feel free to visit my blog: Diary Of A Bus, to learn what my life was like at the Groovy Groves aboard my F450 turtle top bus the Aloha Wagon. You can also follow my growing Video Blog on YouTube. I am currently back in my hometown of Boulder, enjoying much needed family time. Feel free to contact me via email at cmwayant@gmail.com.
Many Mahalo's!
Aloha!
Please visit: instagram page: Casscity or Wayant_Photography Painting: cassidywayantpainting
I grew up in Boulder, Colorado. As a child, I was surrounded by a loving hippy community that cherished nature and lived against the grain. My mom always encouraged me to pursue the arts and helped to nourish my creative side.
As a kid I spent the majority of my time either outside playing in the dirt or sketching my favorite disney characters on scrap pieces of paper. My parents gave me my first camera when I was thirteen. A Yashica 35mm film camera. They offered dark room classes at my middle school and I quickly enrolled in them. I remember making pin hole cameras and trying to turn the family cat into my model.
Throughout my life I have felt the pull to travel. At eighteen, a month after my high school graduation, I packed up and moved back to my family's roots, North Carolina. Where I attended school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with an emphasis in painting. However, I quickly discovered that my true love still belonged to the dark room. I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 2009.
After finishing school, I became restless with Greensboro and longed for something new which is when I made the decision to move to Kailua Kona, Hawaii. I spent the next eight years exploring the Big Island and falling in love with the ocean. Winter of 2017, I made a huge leap of faith to follow a dream. I packed all my belongings and moved from my peaceful Hawaiian home to Bocas Del Toro, Panama. I left the states to work aboard on a traditional gaff rigged schooner. However, that job was short lived and I found myself joining the crew of Sailing Vessel Gertrude. We traded rainy days Bocas for the sun-shining splendour in Grand Cayman. After another adventure to Cuba, myself and my two friends settled into life in the Cayman Islands. I lived aboard 'Gerty", a Morgan 41 Classic, for 9 months before moving on to a 103ft power yacht. This spring I recieved my 100 ton USCG and hope to continue my travels by boat.
I strive to capture the human essence and document our changing oceans. I'm extremely influenced by artists such as: Sally Mann, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange, along with my painting influences of Willem De Kooning, Edouard Manet, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg.
Although old and a bit outdated, feel free to visit my blog: Diary Of A Bus, to learn what my life was like at the Groovy Groves aboard my F450 turtle top bus the Aloha Wagon. You can also follow my growing Video Blog on YouTube. I am currently back in my hometown of Boulder, enjoying much needed family time. Feel free to contact me via email at cmwayant@gmail.com.
Many Mahalo's!
Aloha!
Please visit: instagram page: Casscity or Wayant_Photography Painting: cassidywayantpainting
