About the Artist
Selective Accomplishments:
- Solo show at Gallery Briseno, Toledo, Oregon
- Solo show at Wilsonville Public Library
- Paintings displayed at The Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, Oregon
- Solo show at Breakers Gallery, Waldport, Oregon
- Established online art gallery
- Formal arts training; Bachelor’s Degree with honors
- Visual arts educator – Volunteer prison work – painting course; Experimental College course – Sculpting in Stone; HSV Painting Methods DVD (in production)
- Numerous community art shows – paintings and sculpture in stone
- Graphic Artist – CD cover design, logo design, website graphic design
- Digital Artist – website portfolio
- Web Architect/Designer – Industrial/Commercial
- Multi-instrument jazz musician; numerous performing bands
- Music recording studio engineer, Pioneer Square, Seattle
- Self-published novelist, poet
Visual Arts Training:
University of Connecticut: Painting, Sculpture, Psychology of Perception
Principal art influences include:
- Joseph Albers (color interaction theory); Paul Zelanski (an early professor of mine and himself a student of Josef Albers), and numerous other visual perception theorists.
- Post-Impressionist and Modern Masters: Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, Milton Avery, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Isamu Noguchi, Barbara Hepworth, David Smith, to name a few.
