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Biography
I grew up in Tacoma Washington, I am the oldest, my brother being four years younger. A professional businessman. My Dad was a C.P.A. and my mother was also an accountant who kept their business running long after his death. My father wanted me to try a military career. I graduated from Washington State University and received a Fine Arts Degree and a Commission in the United States Air Force. I was sent to South East Asia Viet Nam era as a photographer and later as a motion picture officer. I left the Air Force in 1970 and entered Claremont Graduate University pursuing a M.F.A. in painting. I was so impressed by my professors that I decided I wanted a career teaching at the university level along with a professional art career. I have accomplished both. I am now on a new journey as a fulltime artist with several shows scheduled in Los Angeles in the near future.
My big break in the art world was a Oneˆperson show a Cirrus Gallery Los Angeles in 1981, which led to other things and as many as 250 group and one person shows in the United States and Internationally. In recent years I have shown extensively in California. In 2001 I was commissioned to do my first Sculpture. The sculture developed from my paintings and has opened a new discipline to my art. Along with art my other love is flying, I have logged over 2500 hrs [pilot in command] in my previous airplane a Cessna 182 and looking for another plane in the near future.
Currently, I maintain a studio in Bakersfield, California, one half hour out of town at the foot of the Sierra Mountains on a small lake and one hour from Los Angeles. I have three grown children. Two live in Los Angeles and the other lives in Tacoma, Washington.
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