INTRODUCTION

Creating this website in my seventy-seventh year is an opportunity to reflect on my life’s journey towards hopefully becoming a “real” artist.  Through learning about, teaching and creating art, I have come to believe that this means articulating my inner voice through the creation of visual images. Being curious and open minded, using my skills to give back to my community, and able to share artistic expressions of what I feel and experience is what my art is about. This yearning has led me on a search in many different directions. Exploring a variety of techniques and mediums, studying and trying out many artistic styles and art movements has defined my work. It also has lead me towards a process of personal growth in staying healthy and whole. It has been challenging to find my authentic voice and balance between my personal life and life as an artist. There have been high and low points in this direction. Although the website is primarily focussed on my art, it also shares how life experiences have been important.

This process has also been a means towards discovering themes and trends in the work and it has given me a stronger sense of where I am now and where I am heading. Observing and painting the same environment has helped me have a deeper understanding and feeling for a particular place. This has led to the discovery that landscape painting is the right subject for me. Most of my current work is now landscape based and much of it is  educational  and enhancing for the spaces of environmental non profit organizations. 

The website is designed to be a retrospective of art work I have created from childhood to the present.  Under PORTFOLIO  in the menu bar are  sub-sections pertaining to periods of my life, mediums, and categories of subject matter. Each of these has a description about its content, an illustrative or personal photo and photos of art work that are part of that category. Some of the photos are from old 35 mm slides and some of them are of art work that was covered by glass that was hard to remove so the images are not always optimal.

I want to thank my family, teachers, colleagues, and mentors for helping me become who I am today. I particularly want to express gratitude to my wife, Linda for her encouragement and editing skills.