My raison d’être is to create intricate surreal drawings and paintings.
I refer to my collections as mindscapes. There are birds, beasts and other creatures in fantasies which flow effortlessly with little thought from my hand to the paper. The works are in ink, pencil and mixed media and are in collections of individuals, organizations, corporations and universities, including, but not limited to the University Club of Chicago, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph and the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois.
I was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Miller-Wagner School of Decorative Arts. I studied privately with the renowned American landscape artist, John Rogers Cox, listed in Who’s Who in American Art. Cox influenced me to regarded the effect of painting as somewhat mysterious.
Good painting offers a mysterious pleasure that one cannot quite put his finger on because the painter, through honesty and hard work, has actually painted his own personality in a familiar subject; and any person’s personality or character or soul, or whatever your word is for it, is something of an enigma.[5]
—John Rogers Cox, 1951
In Chicago, I was represented by the Jacques Baruch Gallery; I exhibited in and was sold through the sales and rental Gallery of Art at the Chicago Institute of Art. I have been selected many times for participation in juried exhibitions state-wide, regionally and nationally. Over a thirty-five year period I have had a number of one-man shows. I draw daily and embark constantly on new work and ideas.
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