Born in the Southeast Texas town of Beaumont in 1950, I was fascinated from my earliest memories by the natural world surrounding me. Along with my brother I was drawn to the forests, swamps, bayous, marsh-covered plains and bays that lead this part of the state down to its coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. It was from this vantage point that I began a life-long process of restating my observations into a visual art that explores an allegorical interplay of both human and animal forms celebrating the natural history of a personal world.
