Bio-        I started to paint the summer of 1956 in Denver, Colorado under the direction of Vance Kirkland,Mr Vance Kirkland's emphasis was the technical side of painting such as mixing paint, stretching canvas, preparing the canvas surface, with rabbit skin glue and white lead. I learned and soon realized that just picking up a brush is easy. The difficult part is that if your are not a master of the technical side of painting your idea will never be realized and your art will be a compromise.       The process of creating a work with all the different aspects can be controlled or guided by the artist's lack of technical control. The work will be far removed from the artist's image of the work.       Mr Vance Kirkland and myself went together to purchase supplies and tools of painting as a learning exercise. The exercise taught the different effects each element has in painting and results that change the appearance and presentation of the idea or concept of the painting.         Over the following years we collaborated ideas but I concentrated on developing a style with an emphasis on colors and movement. I started to change the shape of a canvas and started to use acrylics because I entered into a geometric phase style of painting ,which included utilizing geometric shaped canvas, as well as geometric images on the canvas. The departure from the traditional canvas shape led to metal sculpture.       July of 1971 I was accepted and graduated with certification from the Hobart Welding Company school of welding for sculptors.       In 1972 I graduated from Philadelphia College Of Art with a BFA in sculpture and was awarded for the second year in a row the RS McCracken Weld Sculpture Award. In addition I was offered to participate in the City of Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority program of  public art projects.       I entered a 30 year period of painting and applying function first and form second projects. I created paintings, sculptures and utilitarian objects. Then in the Autumn of 2000 I had a massive fire and lost 49 years of sculptures, photography and paintings-total lost.       Now 22 years later, a period in which I learned about different materials and the belief that I could expand the human vision without the constraints of utilizing one medium. The acknowledgment of the human vision on and through the canvas from the past through the present.         I started painting again with a new style, and genesis incorporating mix media: a style concept that I was taught at an early age. Frankly I am largely self taught and self driven to create a vision that the viewer has not seen or thought about before.