Artist message

When I create a portrait of a song, I “feel like freedom.”
I have found the way to use my talent to present to a viewer a representation of this artist's passion for music. 

The Artist

The inspiration to paint music started with sheet music as a seven-year-old taking accordion lessons.  During my high school years, I played the organ and sang backup in a cover garage band.  While attending the UW Marshfield campus I took a semester of drawing.

After finishing my university degree I took a thirteen thousand miles motorcycle trip. Later in 1974, I traveled for three months in Europe visiting several art museums.  Returning home I self-taught portrait painting, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, and Henry Matisse.

In the eighties, I switched from painting to photography. I returned to painting in 2005, and stumbled onto a signature style by combining my interests in music and art to become a portrait painter of music. In early 2018 I began experimenting with adding playable music. In 2022 I defined this art’s medium as High Art Music Boxes.

It is the continuous evolution combining music and art that started in early 2006, which keeps this artist pushing to redefine the goal of turning sheet music from a craft to an art? An art that hopefully brings a smile that is equally a sight and a sound experience.