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Biography
I’m a native of Indiana and Missouri, but I also traveled and lived in several places in the US and other countries. I loved drawing, painting, working in clay, and creating things in other materials from the time I was a child. I was accepted for study at the Art Institute of Chicago, but was unable to pursue its dual degree, having to earn my own living. So I followed a single-degree line in another of my favorite interests, English literature, and taught English as the main support for my family and me, pursuing my art as a hobby.
Much of my art knowledge is self-taught, but I have had formal instruction and experience: In 1963 I studied art history at St. Joseph College in Indiana with Mrs. Speuler. For part of the time that I was in the Air Force (1965 and 1966) I studied watercolor in San Antonio, Texas. During my years of teaching English at the University of New Orleans, I studied life drawing and figure painting under Martin Straka of the New Orleans Art Institute (1979 – 80). In 1981 my art was accepted by for sale at the Casell Art Gallery in New Orleans. In that same year a number of my pieces were juried by professors of art at Tulane University into the 19th Membership Art Exhibit at Slidell Artist’s League, and in 1982 I had a one-man show in the First Annual Artist’s Trade Fair sponsored by the Mayor’s Commission on the Arts, Slidell, Louisiana. In 1986 I was a member of the Art League of Alexandria, Virginia, and in 1987 I studied life drawing at the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia.
Central Focus of My Art
While I have worked in several mediums and various subjects, my lifelong interest has been primarily focused on trying to capture the fleeting moments expressed by the human face and form, so very revealing yet so easily missed because they happen so quickly and may never be repeated. Yet these reveal a person’s nature, thoughts, moods, or the incredible inner structure and functioning of the human body. So often the revelation comes in a single line or a touch of light or shadow, and, from my perspective, to capture that line, light, or shadow, even if it is only a small part of the whole, is to succeed in the act of creation. To hold that moment of revelation that I have had and share it with others is the primary reason that I have continued to create art my whole life.
I hope that you find in my art that moment of revelation and thrill to it as I did while capturing it. |
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