About Shepherd - The World's Most Colorful Artist -
Shepherd Clark, best known as an International Figure Skating
Champion, is recognized by many as among the most creative, strategic, as well as industrious people in
the world. Shepherd is a unique hybrid as a professional athlete, entrepreneur, and
artist, who's works and life carry a completely original and miraculous jewel
theme about trusting God and reflecting light like a gem.
His life story, is offered in a public speaking engagement
entitled, "Shepherd's Hope", a testimony of trusting God and reflecting light which connects to the
legendary Hope Diamond's epic journey traveling around the world and being cut, and re-cut, yet in the
end, having a higher value as a result of its "Jeweled Journey".
Shepherd is the writer of
"Shepherd's Hope", as well as the Founder of S.H.O.W., The World Art Championships, 10,000 Pennies 4
America, and the annual Crystal Carpet event, WORLD ART’s annual Hollywood gala. Mr. Clark is
also advising Pennies In Action, helping to raise funds, awareness, and life saving
treatments to cancer patients. Throughout Shepherd's life, he has assisted many causes, starting
with finding homes for rescue cats, helping hungry children worldwide, The Special Olympics, many cancer
charities, as well as many local, national, and international causes.
When he was a young child, Shepherd was not treated well as a male figure
skater growing up in the deep south, yet when he would come home the cats his
mother would take in, the ones that no one wanted, were his friends. He made
jewels for them, and as a true "Shepherd", built relationships with animals
which are generally known for their independence. To this day, the cat on
Shepherd's shoulder is a symbol of a provision in Shepherd's life of God's love
for him. It is with spectacular neat coincidence that today Shepherd's name
means exactly what he is doing in business.
Shepherd Walton Clark, his full name, means a loving leader
who provides, from a strong and fortified location, as a trusted bookkeeper of the clergy and
merchants. It is also amazing that Shepherds are the lowliest of occupations historically, yet
they have a unique association with the discovery of the greatest diamond deposits, gem deposits,
archaeological discoveries of the world, the birth of Jesus Christ, The Patriarchs in The
Bible, as a pseudonym for the character of God, and very likely the world's most ancient occupation.
As
an artist, Shepherd's work may be seen as a performer in the spheres of elite
figure skating, jewelry design, fashion design, entertainment production design, and finally,
as a distinctive oil painter, who's works start by being skated on the ice, then re-created on
canvas and covered with rare gems. These works of art, and their jeweled journey to completion, are a
highlight of the new series Shepherd is creating, which leads to the annual Crystal Carpet event in
Hollywood. At this event, Shepherd presents The World Platinum Medal, "The Most
Precious Prize On The Planet".