About the artiste and the offering of this site with its array of investigations and experiences.

Evident in the site itself is the fact that I have been involved with creative imagery for more than a handful of decades. My most important credentials are the images themselves; though I could elect to list a pedigree of studies and subsequent exhibits dating back to my formative years.

By the time I became a teenager I could frame a composition in a camera's viewfinder; develop and print photographic images; and had already been published with a byline in a newspaper - you could say that I was a very lucky child. And I maintained the enthusiasm for creative imagery all my life - at a point even following that enthusiasm into a way of life.

I neither think creative art is teachable or fully understandable even that much effort is made to train people for a career of its practice. What I have experienced most often is that the activity has an agenda of its own and cannot be forced if the expectation is to experience the full event of something entering reality for the very first time and still having a vast potential to pour out over a timeless period of being viewed by the human eye.

As is displayed throughout the site I paint, photograph and explore with a computer (to a limited extent) to find what I believe to be exemplary, even vocal, imagery. I am compelled by the intimacy that exists between a mind and a creative image; which prompts one mind at a time into a state of active imagination - heard as much as seen - while evolving; much in the way the viewer matures beyond past ideals that once were everything, and now are surpassed by life itself.

The work I do is still challenging my notions about imagery, mind and life itself. I am of the belief that artists of any consequence do a tremendous service to those who follow by leaving a record of their exploits - documenting the happenstance of discovery. And even that images speak for themselves, there is no substitute for a first-person grasp of the circumstances that coincided with the work being pursued. Undocumented, the artist's intention often becomes the conjecture of some after-the-fact 'expert' - let us not forget that firsthand experience is invaluable to a young mind griped in the excitement of creative process for the first time. So it is my feeling that the stories and the circumstances are par for the course - even that the imagery might forever speak for itself.