Outside Lookin' In is how I've always felt about art.  It's a way of seeing things through different eyes or from another perspective.  It's at once adventurous and demure.  It's a fantastic voyage through what is and what isn't, through imagination and reality, through the unknown of infinity, from the magificent sailing ships of past centuries to flights of fantasy.  - Welcome to my world.

Everyone writes about their past and their art history - so here goes. I've been doing art for literally as long as I can remember.  It's a part of my being to the very core.  I've worked in Oil, Acrylics, Watercolors, Photography, Oil Pastels, Chalk.  I've won numerous awards over the years for my paintings and photography and had had several one person art showings. But I prefer to look forward and to where my art will go next rather on where I've been.  I'm a true outsider artist, though many have tried to shape my tallents into a more structured and therefore "more correct" form and while I appreciate learned abilities I don't belive art can be put into one correct form or one true box.  I'm also a dyslexic and while I was brought up with the idea that dyslexia is a limitation and a draw back what I've found is that dyslexics have a unique view and perspective of things - that the fact that they learn differently does not mean they are slow, stupid or unteachable and that in fact they are many of the free thinkers that have made progress possible in many fields from Science to Art.  In my own life I've come to see dyslexia as an interresting gift that allows me to question the validity of the word "Impossible".  Just because someone tells you something is imposible or that you can't accomplish something doesn't make it true. 

I've been in the Armed Services, hiked around Europe, toured castles and museums both on and far off the beaten path in Germany. Travelled to Rome and saw Pope John Paul I in Saint Peter's Basillica durring an unscheduled evening blessing.  Was amazed by the magestic sights of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria and left feeling drained, enraged and emensly saddened by the experience of my visit to Dachau where the profound pain of the past is still very tangeble.  Currently I reside in a coastal community in California.  Recently I've been involved in shooting movie production stills for the upcoming movie Ten Years Later  .

I draw a lot of my inspiration from the world around me, from my work travels and experiences.  I'm always inspired by my work with local drama, costuming and photography by the natural surroundings that are the rugged coastline of Central California and it's history rich in Hispanic and Oriental influences of it's western past and abundant wildlife. Most of my ebay art has focused lately toward scratch board ACEO's.  One thing I love about scratch board is that it can never be faked - the surface of scratchboard or even "scratch paper" is actually cut away giving it a textural quality that cannot be duplicated - each scratch piece is a 1 of a kind original that can never be duplicated exactly.  It's also a medium that shows up any mistakes - there is no erasing with scratchboard as the line once cut in will always show.  

  I hope you enjoy viewing my artwork, as much as I enjoy making it.