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In addition to the mythology of our culture, we all have certain experiences, expressions and images that have deep personal significance and meaning. These form the foundation of our personal mythology. Some of us have richer and more elaborate personal mythologies than others. Recently I came to the realization that I was mainly painting the images of my own personal mythology. I am self taught as a painter and after painting for eleven years, I consider that to my advantage as the icons of my mythology are rarely something out there in the material world. My paintings lie somewhere between the presence and the absence of an identifiable image. It would have been a waste of time for me to have spent years learning the techniques to make my paintings look realistic because the subjects of my mythology are mostly imaginary. I do not go outside to nature to find the subjects of my paintings, but rather I paint inside using my imagination and the images of my personal mythology.
As a retired professional psychologist, I have been trained in the use of projective tests such as the Rorschach Inkblots where the observer is presented with purposely-vague images. The observer makes of it what he or she will and that is how I want others to view my paintings. I make of it an image within the framework of my own personal mythology. Whether it has any meaning to anyone else is to be determined by the observer in the act of observing my paintings. I paint those images which come to my mind from the reservoir of my personal mythology and I begin painting that image and then the painting takes on a life of its own. I am trying to achieve paintings that simply, mysteriously, and beautifully illustrate the iconography of my personal myths. Many of my paintings reflect light quite differently as one walks past them. This is also fitting as they reflect the ever-shifting images rising up from our own personal mythologys that float through our imaginations.

Artist Exhibitions



My black and white photograph entitled "Grandpa Brown" won an honorable mention award at the Senior Artist Showcase for 2015 in Tallahassee, Florida.


The Senior Artist Showcase for 2015 in Tallahassee, Florida will be exhibiting my three photographs entitled "Barbara's Son", "Grandpa Brown", and "Operatic Magnolia". The exhibition will be from
August 3 to September 29, 2015.

The Senior Artist Showcase for 2014 in Tallahassee, Florida will be exhibiting my black and white photograph "Old Gas Station". The exhibition will be from August 6 till September 29, 2014.


The Senior Artist Showcase for 2013 in Tallahassee, Florida will be exhibiting my color photograph, "Tennessee Stream". The exhibition begins August 6 and runs till September 29.

The Senior Artist Showcase for 2012 in Tallahassee, Florida will be exhibiting two of my photographs: "Old Farmhouse" which is a black and white photograph and "Operatic Magnolia which is a black and white digital photograph. The exhibition begins in early August and ends in late September.


The Senior Artist Showcase for 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida will be exhibiting two of my computer generated digital images. The digital image "Angel over the Bitterroots" will be exhibited at the LeMoyne Center for Visual Arts in September and the digital image "Extruded Leaves" will be exhibited in the Senior Center in August and September.

The 25th Tallahassee International Exhibition at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, Florida from August 23 to September 26, 2010 will exhibit my satirical painting “Bad Reaction to Bacon.”

The Tallahassee Senior Artist Showcase for 2010 at the Mary Brogan Museum in Tallahassee, Florida from August 23 to September 10, 2010 will exhibit my color photograph “Floating Elevators.”

The Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for 2010 selected for inclusion in their online exhibition my painting "Be Still."

“The Muse as a Catalyst for Creation” Exhibition at the LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts in Tallahassee, Florida originally scheduled from August 20 to September 18 of 2010 selected my paintings “The Forest Dweller” and “Lovers in a Moonlit Sky” for exhibition. Unfortunately, due to financial challenges at the LeMoyne Center, all Fall exhibitions were cancelled.

The Senior Art Showcase for 2009 at the Tallahassee Senior Center Second Floor Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida from July 31 to September 18, 2009 exhibited my painting “Monster or Mystic.”

Florida Senior Art Showcase for 2008 in the Atrium Gallery of the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, Florida from May 9 to June 16, 2008 exhibited three of my paintings: Lovers in a Moonlit Sky; America’s Ninth Plague: Darkness; and Burning Vision of the Holy City.

The Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for 2008 selected for inclusion in their online exhibition my painting entitled "Bloody War".

The Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for 2006 selected for inclusion in their online exhibition my painting entitled "Lovers in a Moonlit Sky".
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