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Biography My art has truly been a reflection of the evolution of my spirit ... My life as an artist ... where do I begin ... when I think of it, it’s always been with me ... from my earliest days I can remember I loved to draw ... each report I prepared for school inspired a picture ... even then I was drawn to the impressionists ... especially Van Gogh ... as I grew ... I drew fashion ... my art always being a depiction of the physical world outside of me ... When I first entered college I planned to study art ... but it was the days of Warhol and Lichtenstein ... and I became disillusioned ... and instead ... I developed my intellect ... and so for many years that’s the world I lived in ... and through which I experienced my connection to my own creativity ... But art is not intellectual ... it is spiritual ... and to me it has become the expression of my inner spirit ... as a reflection of a greater universal energy from which I draw my creative inspiration ... It has now been more than ten years since I became aware of a world greater than myself and the physical world around me ... nature made me a believer of a greater power ... whether it be God or Buddha or just an absolute being or universal energy force ... something must have created all of the beauty and power that we see in nature ... It is truly the majesty, magnificence and colors of the natural physical world that inspire me to create ... |