I started painting in 1970 my ex-wife was an an artist who became my teacher before that I had never done anything involving art then in 1997 I went to the Amazon and when I came back I decided to move into photography since photographs had always been the rock bottom essence of all of my paintings and the things that I said in my paintings are the same things that I say in my photography it's part of my story

After painting for 25 years in acrylic oil mixed media and performance art I decided 1997 to move onto photography since photography had always been the basis for all of my painting but using other photographers to shoot what I directed I moved from portrait work into street photography because I just got tired of being clever and the studio and all you have to do to be a good street photographer to be awake and be thoughtful and capture things that nobody else would notice it became too difficult for me to carry around my camera around my neck and I had trouble walking so I decided to make a dramatic change which I called getting out of my own way and went from doing representational and quasi representational images I moved into non-representational non-objective abstractions applying my expertise in Photoshop to the art of creating images strictly in the computer I started by shooting film stills from TV and moved onto using Google images to get bits and pieces and portraits to manipulate in the computer after a year and a half of creating this and making work totally antithetical to what my paintings look like I think I burned myself out and haven't created new work now for six months my goal is to join these various groups on school and meet other artists and similar situations and trade ideas

I had really bad insomnia when I was pregnant, I normally paint seascapes but I was drawn to paint a series of goddesses, this is one of the collection.. I'm terrible at form and painting people but I think they are expressive!!