influences

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 At Malibu, Pepperdine University looks like a good place to gather academic credits for Art Center, I ask myself the question why must I be an Art Teacher in order to be a Painter?

I stand, fixated in front of one of the Van Gogh sunflowers at Norton Simon museum. 

study painting with Janice Lowry

1984 -graduate- Art Center College of Design, Pasadena with honors .

artwork for Applied Technology Associates on Sensor Package, is launched into Earth Orbit aboard Space Shuttle

I meet Lonnie Frisbee. The second time I see him tells me about the future

I meet John Wimber. I go to work for his company

Spend a month working in Kowloon’s Walled City

rent a studio in San Clemente

I meet Gordon McClelland

move to El Morro Beach where I read Edward Abbey’s "Desert Solitare" while listening to Pink Floyd’s Meddle and the occasional coyote

move to Capistrano Beach, rent a studio in San Clemente

First Collaboration and Surf with Jeff Girard

AMY

painting the “Disney Wonder” portrait rekindles my joy of Oil Paints

winner Hilo Hatties international aloha shirt competition

move to San Juan Capistrano

start a family

Ted Rosenfeld intorduces me to Tony Forster, we become friends

Jeff Girard suggests a book

Carnegie Art Museum asks to exhibit a retrospective of my Glare work