About the Artist
Take a tour of the world seen through my minds eye. I have created a world that can only be seen on these pages or on the walls of my home.
I was born in March, 1952 with a natural creative and artistic talent. I have been creating the strange and unusual my entire life. I work in traditional media, oils, watercolor, pen and ink, charcoal and pencil. I have been doing some tile work (relief sculpture) for my garden. These begin as a clay original, are molded and then cast in stone. Since the advent of the computer, I began using the new medium. I prefer to work traditionally (it is faster), then scan or take a digital photograph of the work and do any manipulations on a MacIntosh as needed.
A large portion of my education is self taught, in art and in other subjects. I studied commercial art at SUNY Farmingdale, NY where the curriculum is commercial art. I left SUNY, and went on to apprentice under two artist friends, Chuck Liese and Dave Pasalaqua, where I studied illustration and painting.
I read somewhere that an artist needs two lifetimes to achieve their level of success. The first is to learn, refine and hone the skills of the crafts in which one wishes to pursue. The second is to produce the objects from those skills for the world to gaze upon. I am now beginning my second lifetime.
I am now retired from a 36 career with US Government, as an electronic technician. I did a 6 year enlistment in the US Navy and 30 years with the FAA. I maintained a radar system at an airport for 14 years, and spent the remainder of my career in an administrative position assisting in managing the National Air Space. I am now looking forward to pursuing my second career as a fine artist. I have done some commercial work, but prefer the fine arts. I enjoy the surrealistic world and do portraits as well. I have done architectural renderings, designed landscapes and dwellings and design and build fine furniture and other woodworking items. I plan to begin practicing the ancient art of Blacksmithing and Foundry work in the near future. Blacksmithing is the art of forming metal by heating it in a forge and beating or hammering into shape. Foundry work is the art of pouring molten metal into molds, creating 3 dimensional objects. I like to think that I am Renaissance Man traveling on the same road that Leonardo da Vinci transversed.
I have a Gallery of my Handcrafted Woodworks on display for you to see. I build furniture, cabinetry, boxes, whatever is needed for home. I have just recently started obtaining old tools to aid in my woodwork ventures. It seems to me the old tools are better then there modern counterparts, if they exist at all. As you might imagine, I build things by hand also.
I rebuilt my home to incorporate a studio large enough to provide the space needed for working and hopefully reproducing some of my works. My studio is large enough that I can paint large paintings and murals. I can do works infinitely long (rolling the canvas as it dries) by about 14 feet high. My cousin did the framing, which is his trade, and contracted out everything else except the finish work, that My Wife Kathy and I did.
I hope you find this viewing of My World fascinating and different.
The image above is a digital creation of different elements from different works found on these pages.
PS. Art Man is a name given to me by a friend, and I used it as a commercial name when doing that work. I retained the name and still use it, because I like it.
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