I am a self taught contemporary painter and new artist, Inventor and Product Developer from Western Pennsylvania who paints in any medium including oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, inks and other and I use any style or medium to achieve my goal or the desired effect. I am also an Inventor, creative problem solver and professional product developer that creates fun, new and exciting products for people and consumers which helps them in their everyday lives and which brings a smile to their face. I also love animals and I enjoy creating products for cats, dogs, animals and pets. I also enjoy writing my patent applications and I hold over 70 Intellectual Properties. I have worked in many industries including the Art industry, Baking industry, Housewares, Home and Garden, the Guitar and Music Industry and others but I am not limited to these industries. I enjoy playing the guitar and I have helped creators in the music industry bring their sound, product and vision to life. I am constantly creating and bringing my new creations, innovative products and visions to life.
I grew up creating products and games, playing music and creating art by using pastels and watercolors as a child. I also enjoyed using any available colored materials, creating images and scenes from anything that I could get my hands on. I would create landscapes and abstract work with rocks onto rock, walls or wood then later fill in with paint. Growing up, brushes were like gold and if you painted with them and forgot to clean them, they would dry solid as a rock so finding other means of applying paint was essential. Later in life, you find that purchasing the most expensive or best reviewed brush doesn’t give you the desired feel. Some artists have a few specific brushes that they swear by but I am not confined to any brush, object or material. Since I do not have a specific style of painting, I use whatever I’ve learned over the years or style of painting to achieve the effect needed. This philosophy carries over to my brushes or lack of brushes and also carries over to my medium. I will use any medium to create my desired vision or artwork and this can include paint, clay, wood, metal or other materials. I enjoy creating art in many and all styles or movements in painting i.e. abstract art, contemporary art, landscape artwork, midcentury modern art, impressionism, post impressionism, fauvism and more because you are constantly learning and this doesn’t confine your imagination, mind or work. I believe in putting 100% of yourself into all that you do and in all of your creations, this can range from something as simple as cooking or baking up to painting or even up to creating a product from the ground up which hits the shelves.
I believe that everyone has the ability to create or to invent but the key is through vision work, imagination, hard work and practice. I’ve played the guitar for many years now and just like with music, the more you practice the better you will become and the more you will learn. It’s always been practice, practice, practice and with practice comes confidence then it’s just second nature. When creating art, a person has to interpret everything inwards and outwards which means that it has to go through the filter first, your filter. The greatest tool the artist has is their imagination and it’s a special gift that allows you to create something from nothing. I believe this power is in our DNA and spirit and it’s Godlike.
All of my paintings are places in my mind, where I would want to be so I do not paint a landscape that I am visually looking at i.e. plein air painting nor do I paint from images or trace and all of my paintings are painted in my outside studio, with the doors open and sometimes, snow blowing in. Achieving an emotional response over a visual response is a good goal and this is why I’ve always said, “Good art makes you look, Great art makes you experience.”
Here is an acrylic painting, it’s a place in my mind where I would want to go.
