My paintings feature dreamlike images of mysterious people, animals, and landscapes and have a storybook quality to them. I love portraying the figure and seeing how many different ways it can fit into a fantastic scene. I attend figure drawing and figure painting sessions to get a fix on the realism, and then invent surroundings. I've been a full time artist practically all my adult life. Thirty-odd years of clay and watercolors at art fairs, in galleries, and elsewhere; caricatures since 1992 (my day job); and now painting. Painting is to be the last leg of my artistic career. I intend to keep it up until I am as old as a human can get and still make art.