Steve Jameson


Charles Stephen "Steve" Jameson is a United States painter and children's book illustrator. Jameson paints under two brush names: "Cedar" and "Wodin".
Books illustrated by Jameson include Just Imagine, God Brother, Dreaming of the Beloved, and Cooking with Katie.
In 2009, Jameson was elected into the National Watercolor Society.

Early life

Steve Jameson was born in 1973 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, and grew up in nearby Elizabethtown; he was the oldest of seven children of parents Hugh Jameson and Mary Jo Jameson.
Steve first went to a private, Catholic school, St. James Elementary and later attended Elizabethtown Catholic High School, both of Saint James Parish in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He also attended Elizabethtown High School, where he graduated. Following high school, he studied at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He majored in architecture and fine art.
At the age of 22, Steve first heard of the Indian spiritual master, Avatar Meher Baba, and after having, internal spiritual experiences while visiting Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Steve came to accept Meher Baba as the God incarnate soul known as the Avatar; the reincarnation of Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. This story is told on the website Meher Baba Travels.

His life in Myrtle Beach

At the age of 29, Steve moved to live near the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where many disciples of Meher Baba make their homes. He opened a sign shop called The Sign Man, making custom, sandblasted, illustrated & gilded residential signs for tourists to make a living for himself. He uses his sign shop as his painting studio. His shop/studio was featured in a two-page, illustrated spread of Grand Strand Magazine's August/September, 2014 issue.
Jameson, under the painting name of "Wodin" has become one of the best known painters of the image of Avatar Meher Baba in the world. Hundreds of his paintings are in private collections all over the world. As such, Jameson is listed as one of the best known painters of Meher Baba's image on the web site Meher Baba Travels.
Steve has visited Meher Baba's Samadhi in Ahmednagar, India three times. On these pilgrimages, he met the last remaining disciples of Meher Baba, including Baba's younger sister, Mani Irani. He became very close friends with Mani and illustrated two of her books; one of her childhood stores of life with her God-brother and another of her dreams of her God-realized brother. The first book Steve illustrated for Mani was "God Brother", published by Sheriar Books in 1993. The second book he illustrated for her was "Dreaming of the Beloved", published by Sheriar Books in 1998.
Jameson's greatest project has been the designing of his planned, future Daddy God Art Museum to be built on the South Carolina coast among other popular tourist destinations and near the Meher Spiritual Center of Myrtle Beach.

Fine art career

The Daddy God art series

Jameson first received public recognition for a series of artworks entitled DADDY GOD. These images of a spiritual figure are based on the physical form of Avatar Meher Baba. Jameson is widely recognized among the followers of Meher Baba to be one of the most popular, prolific and well-known painters of the physical form of Avatar Meher Baba. He has been selected as the illustrator-of-choice by several of Meher Baba's closest Mandali ; including Meher Baba's sister Mani Irani and Katie Irani. He first illustrated God Brother, a children's book by Mani Irani, sister of the Indian spiritual master Avatar Meher Baba. Later, Mani Irani again chose him to illustrate her last published book,Dreaming of the Beloved, by Mani Irani. He won the Printing Industry of the Carolinas 's First Place for a 4-color book illustration. Fellow disciple of Meher Baba, Katie Irani then selected Jameson to illustrate her book of anecdotes & recipes calledCooking with Katie, by Katie Irani.

Videography

In 1996, Steve produced a set of animated videos entitled LIFE IS A PAIR O'DUCKS. Sixteen short stories written by Jameson are accompanied by sound effects, Hollywood music writer Kris Kraft's musical score, voice overs by actresses such as Jane Barry Haynes and Mani Irani, sister of Avatar Meher Baba; with videography by Emmy award-winning television producer Chris Riger. Riger also created the documentary films 'Meher Baba's Call, The Ancient One and others about the life of Avatar Meher Baba.
In 2010, guitarist and song composer Mischa Rutenberg used Jameson's artwork from his series DADDY GOD in his music videos THIS IS NOTHING BUT YOUR LOVE and KINDNESS''.

Illustrated books

In 2006, Jameson began In God'S Hands, illustrations for the book Just Imagine that portray children playing in the hands of God.

"Cedar" landscapes

Jameson's brush name when painting landscapes is CEDAR.
He studied with watercolorist Jeanne Dobie, AWS, NWS, who is the author of Making Color Sing. He has won several national level-awards and honors. In 2009, Jameson was elected to be a member of the National Watercolour Society.
In 2007, Jameson began painting landscapes in acrylic and oil palette knife as well as watercolor.

Published reviews and nterviews

Radio broadcasts

Awards