"I was a fighter pilot and, later, an airline pilot. Now 66 years young, I call myself an artist. As I look back on nearly two decades of painting, I realize that it began as a Forrest Gump type of moment; one day in September of 1995, for no particular reason, I decided to pick up a brush and create my first watercolour and, when I finished that, I started another, then another, until today my painting logbook (I was a pilot remember) records more than 380 paintings. In 2004, I transitioned from the watercolour medium to acrylic on canvas and the paintings are now much larger in size and involve concentrations of detail that astonish even me as I step back from the canvas."
