Basics

Channel:
Art
Genres:
Collage, Digital Art, Figurative, Mixed Media, Traditional
Roles:
Artist, Illustrator - Digital, Painter, Sketch Artist
Specialties:
Flying by the seat of my pants :O)
Hometown:
Lake Worth, Florida

Biography

I am predominantly self taught and have been drawing and sketching on and off since I was in grade school. However, I studied graphic art, portraiture, cartooning and landscaping in community colleges and various art centers in and around Southern and Central Florida. I have recently taken up Plein Air painting and find it wonderfully challenging.

Statements

I find painting, drawing and digi-work relaxing. Whether I sell or do not sell is irrelevant because I have learned that whether I am standing in front of my easel or sitting in front of my Mac, creating is the place where I am at my happiest. I enjoy those special moments when I am creating; lost in my own thoughts and ideals of how I view the world and my surroundings. My personal hope is to visually record those individual moments in life that make the voyage through life such an amazing journey. Because in the end its the passage, not the final destination that defines who we are and why we are.

Styles

My style has an innocent quality with not much attention to detail. My primary focus when I paint is to instill a mood, a feeling or sentiment. I generally design directly on the white canvas. However, I do draw many sketches but my finished canvas prod

Creative Tools Used

Pastels, charcoal, acrylics paints, and various found objects and allowing these objects to take on a life of their own and just following along with the flow until they have morphed into what they have wanted to become.

Techniques

I use various techniques because I am always exploring different avenues of expression.

Exhibitions

1992- Armory Art Center (West Palm Beach, Florida)
2006- Seminole Community College Show (Sanford, Florida)
2/2008- Gallery at Metro (Orlando, Florida)
4/2008- Timucua Arts Foundation (Orlando, Florida)
5/2008- Adult Literacy League: Read Between the Wines (Orlando, FL)
5/2008- R.V's Gallery "Anything Counts"
5/2008- Orlando Fringe Festival (Orlando, Florida)
6/2008- Gallery at Metro (shake it Exhibit)
8/2008- R.V.'s Gallery "Anything Count's II"
10/2008- The Office Gallery/Vagabond Exhibition

Specialties

Flying by the seat of my pants :O)

Inspirations

I am inspired by nature, dreams, my surroundings, feelings and emotions...Then of course my imagination plays a large role with what I produce as well. It tends to run away with me at times. It is what sets me in motion. I have also loved and admired the works of Salvador Dali, Van Gogh and Degas. I guess you can say that they have inspired me to paint and see things with a different perspective.

Group Members

Central Florida Plein Air Group (Orlando Chapter)
Artist Registry
Gallery on 1st (Sanford, Florida) -affiliated