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I have been painting for the past eight years. However, even during the times I was not actively painting I was creating in my mind. I have collected many artist's morgues over the years only to misplace them. Most of my reference is from my 58 years of life.
I was born in Pennsylvania but my family moved West when I was four years old and I was raised in New Mexico. After a stint in the Army, fourteen months on Shemya Island, (The Aleutians) Alaska and a tour in Vietnam, (1965-66 Phu Bai) I returned to the states and was married. My wife and I settled in Alamogordo, New Mexico where we lived for ten years until our divorce in 1978 after which I moved to Texas and have been here since.
I travelled extensively while in the Army and I suppose I always had the artist's eye visualizing on canvas the scenes and events that I encountered. Though I don't have any formal training I do have the God given desire and mentality to create--and create I must.
My preferred art is representational and/or realism, that which offers one scene from the ever unfurling of God's Creations leaving the rest of the scenario to the imagination of the viewer. However, since no two people view a sunset the same way, a child at play evokes different emotions in different people, pleasing geometric shapes, color arrangements, light and shadows all trigger unique responses in individuals I also delve into other genre'. Abstract, surreal, realistic, etc. no matter the genre', there is one thing I am sure of, if I don't paint, don't create, there is a large emptiness in my world.
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