"I've always wanted to be an artist ever since I can remember. I’m doing now exactly what I wanted to do when I was a young boy. In a sense my paintings are just me reliving my own childhood and my own life experiences, or maybe the way I would have liked it to be. I’m really moved by the memories of days gone by. Sometimes I think the memories are better than the reality. I love to paint children. There’s an innocence they have that I never get tired of trying to put on canvas.
Art for me has to come from the heart. An emotionally conceived painting projects itself to the viewer. I want my paintings to show life as good, honest, wholesome and clean, full of hope and inspiration. If I can attract people to these kinds of principles, even in a small way, I feel like I’ve said something in my art. I was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. My brother Clayne was born a year after me in Los Angeles, California where our family had moved. Our early child hood was during the war years of World War II. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t drawing. My Mom was always telling me what a great artist I was. She would make so much out of my drawings that I believed her. She made Clayne and I think we were great. We rode our bikes, played baseball in vacant lots, and shot marbles, all the things kids do, and there was always a dog following us around. Through it all there was always time to draw and I drew constantly. My paintings are just a reflection of my boyhood.
Art for me is a continuous search. When I was young and starting out as an artist I wanted to learn everything I could. I wanted to know exactly what I was doing but every time I finished a painting it never met up to my expectations and I felt like a failure. As time went by it didn’t get any easier and I still didn’t understand what I was doing. When I heard the joke, “By the time I found out I had no talent it was to late; I was already famous” it scared the heck out of me. Then one day I was watching TV and I happened to catch Allan Alda giving the commencement speech at his daughter’s graduation and he said a sentence that changed my life: “CREATIVITY IS NEVER QUITE KNOWING WHAT YOU’RE DOING.” I then realized that it’s not desirable to know exactly what I’m doing and I’ve never looked back."
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