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Rancho Cucamonga plaster artist fights to save his career
It's amazing the entrepreneurial dreams some immigrants achieve after moving to America.
Steve Selos is fighting to keep his alive.
The luxury home plaster relief artist waits day after day for a phone call that will not only put him back to work, but fuel his artistic creativity so he can pass on his skills to another generation.
"I'm trying to save my house, my art and my future," the Rancho Cucamonga resident said.
Life wasn't always this difficult.
Selos Creative Finishes - the home-based business he started in 1983 after he moved to Pomona from Swindon, England - catapulted to mini-stardom status in the luxury home world over the past decade with its intricate designs.
Custom home builders, wealthy business owners and corporate executives from around the world summoned Selos to wield his craft on the walls and ceilings of their fancy mansions, making his small company more successful than he ever imagined.
Now, it's come to a grinding halt.
Even though prospective jobs are in the pipeline, builders and homeowners aren't throwing around money like they used to, forcing Selos to do everything he can to keep his home.
He's already sold some furniture, art tools and knick-knacks to bring in extra money - but there's only so much you can get rid of before the emotional tug starts hitting home.
"If I lose this house, where do I go?," Selos said. "I won't have any tools, any scaffolding...
I won't have a (business) telephone number or Web site for people to go to. We have one nostril above the water line, and we're swimming heavily."
He's strategizing about how to find work. Searching high and low for an art grant hasn't yielded results.
"I'm still looking for any way to keep my craft and teach it - there's definitely a desire for it," Selos said. "Not every kid is born to do computer or office work. Some people are much more tactile."
Selos admires artisan greats like Sam Maloof, the Rancho Cucamonga-based wood craftsman whose furniture has been showcased in the Smithsonian, the Vatican and the White House. Maloof died in May.
In fact, Selos has some big achievements of his own. His portfolio includes work he did for the Ford family in Detroit, heirs of the automobile dynasty, and the Mayo family, founders of the not-for-profit health group Mayo Clinic.
His stellar resume goes on and on, which isn't half bad for someone who "worked (his) way up from the wrong side of the tracks in Pomona," Selos said.
Longtime customer Rod Wilson said Selos has a rare skill. He's hired the plaster artisan to work on six houses since the late 1980s.
"He's an amazing talent with the way he walks into a room and feels the space and ambiance," Wilson said. "He has the creative instinct that allows him to transform a room to something bold and beautiful."
He added: "You can bring a painter to paint your house, or you can bring in Michelangelo. A painter will just cover your walls with paint, but Michelangelo will build upon the cracks and crevices and know exactly where to paint. That's what his skill is."
Selos has high hopes things can change. Maybe it's just a matter of time, he said.
"We really love this neighborhood and this part of the world," Selos said. "It's what we're fighting to stay in."
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Steve Selos is fighting to keep his alive.
The luxury home plaster relief artist waits day after day for a phone call that will not only put him back to work, but fuel his artistic creativity so he can pass on his skills to another generation.
"I'm trying to save my house, my art and my future," the Rancho Cucamonga resident said.
Life wasn't always this difficult.
Selos Creative Finishes - the home-based business he started in 1983 after he moved to Pomona from Swindon, England - catapulted to mini-stardom status in the luxury home world over the past decade with its intricate designs.
Custom home builders, wealthy business owners and corporate executives from around the world summoned Selos to wield his craft on the walls and ceilings of their fancy mansions, making his small company more successful than he ever imagined.
Now, it's come to a grinding halt.
Even though prospective jobs are in the pipeline, builders and homeowners aren't throwing around money like they used to, forcing Selos to do everything he can to keep his home.
He's already sold some furniture, art tools and knick-knacks to bring in extra money - but there's only so much you can get rid of before the emotional tug starts hitting home.
"If I lose this house, where do I go?," Selos said. "I won't have any tools, any scaffolding...
I won't have a (business) telephone number or Web site for people to go to. We have one nostril above the water line, and we're swimming heavily."
He's strategizing about how to find work. Searching high and low for an art grant hasn't yielded results.
"I'm still looking for any way to keep my craft and teach it - there's definitely a desire for it," Selos said. "Not every kid is born to do computer or office work. Some people are much more tactile."
Selos admires artisan greats like Sam Maloof, the Rancho Cucamonga-based wood craftsman whose furniture has been showcased in the Smithsonian, the Vatican and the White House. Maloof died in May.
In fact, Selos has some big achievements of his own. His portfolio includes work he did for the Ford family in Detroit, heirs of the automobile dynasty, and the Mayo family, founders of the not-for-profit health group Mayo Clinic.
His stellar resume goes on and on, which isn't half bad for someone who "worked (his) way up from the wrong side of the tracks in Pomona," Selos said.
Longtime customer Rod Wilson said Selos has a rare skill. He's hired the plaster artisan to work on six houses since the late 1980s.
"He's an amazing talent with the way he walks into a room and feels the space and ambiance," Wilson said. "He has the creative instinct that allows him to transform a room to something bold and beautiful."
He added: "You can bring a painter to paint your house, or you can bring in Michelangelo. A painter will just cover your walls with paint, but Michelangelo will build upon the cracks and crevices and know exactly where to paint. That's what his skill is."
Selos has high hopes things can change. Maybe it's just a matter of time, he said.
"We really love this neighborhood and this part of the world," Selos said. "It's what we're fighting to stay in."
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