After completing a successful 36-year career as President and CEO of a large regional advertising agency headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Ed Lane moved to Maui, where he already maintained a second home, and began to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a "full-time" artist.

When asked during a recent newspaper interview if he didn't feel cheated giving all those years to advertising and television instead of painting, Ed replied: "Not at all. Van Gogh painted for only 15 years, Toulouse Lautrec for 14 years. I figure I've got at least that long left to make my mark as a painter."

He certainly didn't waste any time in his new "profession". He was almost immediately accepted into the 1996 Juried Art Maui Exhibition and the Maui County Mayor's Invitational. Since then, he has been selected to be in over 65 juried shows in Hawaii and on the mainland, has received numerous awards in national juried shows and has received reviews by art critics in Honolulu and Maui. In 2001 the Hawaii State Foundation for the Arts purchased a painting for the State Collection.And even with all this, he has still found time each year to spend a month or two painting in France.

Ed Lane's training began as a child. Since the age of six, Lane has been fascinated with shapes and colors. "I was a bad student", remembers Ed, "always drawing instead of studying". But he was no child prodigy, simply a struggling student with a talent for some pretty nice scribbling. Surrounded by artists in his family, his creative abilities were soon recognized and encouraged. His formal art studies were at Kansas City Art Institute and the William Rockhill Nelson Art Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in fine art, and a two-year stint in the Air Force, Lane began a thirty-six year love affair with the "exuberance" of his art.

Ed's paintings are in private and corporate collections in Maui, Honolulu, California, Arizona, New York, Washington, Illinois, England, Japan, Spain, France and Hungary. His work is represented in galleries in Santa Monica, Maui, Honolulu and the Big Island.