PAINTER OF DREAMS

Relationship status

It's Complicated

College / University

I began my studies in drama & acting at the Chicago Art Institute in 1965. From the Institute I went to New York City and found very little work for myself as an actor (my main career goal at the time). I then ended up in Provincetown, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and my path crossed with my first mentor: Bonnie Whittingham - a well known & highly established painter who's painting talent had taken her from "nowhere" to invitations to the White House. She also enjoyed an extraordinarily successful career financially. For years her studio in Provincetown (next to the famed Provincetown Playhouse) known as The Harlequin Studio, was where she worked and sold her paintings to tourists, who were always welcomed as if they were long time friends; which many, in fact were! Shortly after the Labor Day weekend, Bonnie and her companion would leave for her wonderful loft in Manhattan to continue the work started during the summer in Provincetown and also to begin the work for her many winter shows at the galleries who represented Bonnie and her paintings. During the early to mid 1960's, the Harlequin Studio would also serve as the "nursery" to the American woman's liberation movement as well as continuing on as the gallery where Bonnie created and sold her work. Many of the early members of that movement found nurturing and safety at the Harlequin Studio as well as the personal strength Bonnie shared with everyone who came to her seeking shelter from the madness of the world around them.

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

I am...
first and foremost a painter & champion of acrylic paint. I have been using and exploring this medium for more than 35 years now and it continues to surprise and delight me! I am also privately involved with the paranormal, hauntings and the curious world of death and dying. I have never lived a day of my 62 years without having, at least, one cat near me.

About my artwork

My work involves itself with the metaphysical aspect of all things. I also portray the world around me in a dream state - purposely omitting the obvious so that the viewer may see their story in my imagery

Artists I like

Giorgio de Chirico and Ivan Albright (of Chicago, Illinois)

I would be remiss were I not to mention my mentor, the very person who "told me" You have the hands of a painter." Her name... Bonnie Whittingham.

Interests

The paranormal. World travel. Long periods of time spent at sea. . Fiction writing. Cat, cats & more cats.

If you wasn't an artist, what other Profession would you do?

No doubt I would do something that involved working with people in need. However, in truth, I can not imagine not being a painter or not having something to do in the art world.

Favourite Personal Quote

To us, and to all those who want to be like us!

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Far too many to list here and now

The Centre of the Artworld is

my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere

My Web Address is

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Favourire all time artist?

My all time favorite artist, the one I hold in highest regard, is that artist who works every day, for long hours - who seldom complains when the work is rejected and who does not suffer from
depression for the lack of recognition and who never gives up!