“BRIEF BIOGRAPHY& GOALS”
BACK GROUND: I’ve never written one of these, so I’ll start with the legal name my mother gave me, Stevie j. I was born in Phoenix, Arizona In 1967. My parents were farmers from Arkansas and grow up during the great depression. I’m the baby of the family one of five, so I got a little spoiled. I haven’t got a lot of formal education, not for the lack of my parents trying, but because I was stubborn & rebellious. The weird thing is I absolutely love to read. My first artistic experience that I can remember I was about four or five? Or so I’m told, I stumbled on some old paint cans dad had in the carport and proceeded to oil paint the walls(I’m sure it was abstract!),sometimes to this day when I smell turpentine I remember that. so they went out and bought me an art set. I have no formal art training other then public school and books. Through the years growing up I always love to draw and paint, I used it to kill time or to help me cope when I was down an out. It was a personal thing and I regret now not sharing with other people that thing which I loved most. As a teen I read (mostly looked at), any and everything on Greek art, the renaissance, African art, all the impressionist, but by far the modern art movement of the last century has moved me the most, I was about eight or nine my school took a field trip to Phoenix, and the cubist paintings there drew me in, so I ask the teacher who painted that one she informed me it was Picasso I was immediately hooked on modern art! I was struck by the broken line and form and monotone color that still seemed so bright. At this point you maybe asking yourself why this guy didn’t go on to peruse a degree or do something with his art? Well John Lennon summed it up best, “life happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. I have no regrets about the past I’m still 42- years young and I feel my imagination is more in tune then ever, and my inner heart is on fire with inspirational power that as a child I could never express, but trough mature eye’s I view the possibilities!