To understand my history as as an artist, we have to look back to the time when I was a student in art school. It was an artistically supercharged time. Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism were strong influences. Pop Art, Minimalism, Photo Realism, Conceptual, and Performance Art were going strong.

I won some acclaim at that time for my geometric paintings on shaped canvases.

However, by the time I graduated, my own artwork had hit a dead end. I was disillusioned and felt that art as a cohesive, enlightening message was losing its way.

For the next forty years, I focused on applying my creativity exclusively to teaching. Along the way, I acquired some new art skills such as calligraphy and achieved a degree of recognition for creating art projects to teach math. I created the website, mathsquad.com, and wrote some books on calligraphy, including Calligraphy For Dummies.

Around 2016, having recently retired from teaching, I began to paint again, returning to the kinds of geometric optical illusions I had done as a student. I was shocked to discover that the art world hadn’t really progressed beyond the point where I had left it. I believe my disillusionment forty years earlier was a foretelling of the demise of the art world as I had known it.

In 2018 and 2019 I immersed myself in ancient religious texts and the writings of Carl Jung. I produced close to two hundred works based on dreams, the Hebrew Bible, and the Christian New Testament.

In 2020, during the pandemic, I had a profound inspirational experience which evolved into a new, exciting, metaphysical vision for my art. My painting today is my expression of that enlightening experience.