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When Reyn Guyer graduated from college in 1957, his father asked him to put aside his plans to go to work in a newspaper and join him in his new
design company-The Reynolds Guyer Agency of Design. Reyn's dad already had developed a handful of clients who wanted help with their package design and
their point-of-purchase displays.
Although he had a mere one semester of a fine arts class in college, Reyn was given a drawing board in the 'bullpen' with the other professional artists.
Realizing that he had a lot of ground to make up to become competent enough to be of some help, Reyn observed the techniques of the pros around him and
went home to practice what he had learned during the day. After nearly two years of working, often late into the night, he began to be able to accurately
draw most anything that he could observe.
Reyn went on to run the Reynolds Guyer company and subsequently his own companies in the toy and game development business.
In the early 1970s, after successes with the TWISTER GAME and the NERF products, Reyn decided that his competence as a visual artist were good
enough take a leap.
He allotted a portion of the toy and game royalties to his staff, and closed down the offices of Winsor Concepts. The next step was to rent 3600
square feet of studio space in a rehabbed warehouse building the was home to many area artists.
From 1973 to 1980, Reyn worked daily in his studio. His work first began with hundreds of watercolors and occasional workshops in Maine. New
techniques involving masking and acrylic paint began to emerge in response to a thematic idea that he had developed. His work became more abstract
as he attempted to express this new concept. He called his new work 'CONTINUUMS', and the essence of the new direction was to convey the flow of
process. Whether it is an idea, or a task, or even a life, there is a process that occurs which involves the gradual movement of one phase to
another. Expressed in its entirety, Reyn chose to call them 'CONTINUUMS'. See attached photos of the painted pieces.
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