Meet Greg Garret

I was born in 1954 in Alliance Nebraska. I still make my home here and have worked for BNSF Railway since 1974. I have always had an interest in art. I remember drawing horses and other things in grade school for students in my class. I did take a few short art courses when I was young, but I seem to enjoy reading about different techniques and also experimenting on my own.

I am, basically a self-taught artist, getting most of my information from books and videos by several different artists that I admire. I continued my interest in art through the years by doing various things. I built furniture and cabinets for a short time in the 70’s through the 80’s as a hobby. I tried sculpture in the late 80’s and 90’s creating full figure bronzes of professional baseball players.

These bronze sculptures were made on commission for the players exclusively. When I started lettering and illustrating safety signs for our railroad facility in Alliance in the late 70’s it led to a rekindled interest in drawing and painting. I have illustrated many posters, signs, cartoons, logos etc., for the railroad since then.

In 2009 I was commissioned to create five paintings for BNSF Railway’s Fort Worth Corporate Offices, “High Country Thunder”, ” Autumn Titans”, “Sandhills Fury”, “Sagebrush and Steel”, and “Come Rain or Shine”.

I started an annual train painting in 2003 with “Close Encounter”. In 2003 I started adding wildlife more prominently to the paintings. On September 1, 2014 I retired from the railroad with 42 years of service. I have still been illustrating and paintin