Painting and the arts were introduced to me when I was a
very young child, running through the house, hands into everything, learning
how to speak, being told by my father to stay out of his room as he painted. Surrealistic
landscape oil works by my father on canvas pictured here were in our home for
decades (they remain in the family to this day). Studying at the University of
New Mexico, Fine Art Department of Art and Art History, I drew similarities in
these images to the great surrealists, particularly Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy
(1900-1955). My father completed the Tanguy style surreal works (above) circa. 1965. Self-taught
in many trades and the arts, my father completed several paintings, some
portraits, including my mother as a young woman (below) around the year I was born. The
arts were important and made known to us in my family of inventing and executive: engineers, machinists, and scientists. Two of my paternal uncles supported early developments and machining involving reactor piles and heavy water. Another uncle worked at the original Los Alamos site. Our family
homes are also graced with works by my father's sister, my aunt (further below), and my
paternal grandmother (not pictured).
