About the Artist -2

Art and Design

After a usual childhood art background, including winning a first prize in the annual Colorado student art contest, my adult involvement in art began with conceptual art in San Francisco in the late 1960s. For several years I did performance and event art in various locations: North Beach, The DeYoung Museum, Ocean Beach and the San Francisco State Campus. I also had a sculpture studio on 25th Street in the Mission District.

In the early 1970s I turned to etching. Although I originally began as a surreal expressionist, after opening an art gallery in Vail, Colorado (Wild Wind Gallery) I found my interest shifting to representational landscape etching. I showed and sold my prints at more than 30 locations about Colorado.

I also returned to science and received a Master of Science degree in physics from Colorado State University in 1980. For much of the ensuing decades I divided my interest between research, teaching, writing and art.

My first introduction to computer graphics was designing a novel wind turbine using Computer Automated Drafting (CAD).

For a number of years I explored computer graphics as a hobby. Then, in 2001, I accepted a position as a Computer Graphics Specialist at Colorado State University. My principle task was designing and illustrating a new visual education system for teaching college chemistry. Subsequently I used the new materials to design and teach a graduate class in chemical education for high school teachers.

For several years my days were spent mostly with Illustrator and InDesign, while my nights were with Photoshop, Bryce and truSpace (as well as Acid, Sound Forge and Vegas, but that is a different story).

In 2005 I resigned from my position to devote myself entirely to free digital creation.

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