Rigsby Frederick, founding owner of the Rigsby Frederick Salon & Gallery, is a native of south Louisiana and a 39-year veteran of the beauty industry. A creatively inspired man with many talents, Frederick is known not only as a platform artist, educator, and mentor, but also as an award-winning sculptor, furniture and lighting designer, photographer and landscape artist. His inspirations stem from a deep respect of nature, the human form, ethnicity and primitive cultures, specifically Wabi Sabi (a Japanese aesthetics concept centered around transience and imperfection) and Feng Shui (a Chinese philosophy of harmonizing with one’s surroundings).