About Jimmy

I’ll put a picture here on the left, when I find something less scary than what I have laying around. For now, just imagine a reasonably happy guy of sixty years old with big ears who looks a little too intense. I live in the Texas hill country, outside of Dripping Springs, with my very patient and loving wife, Lasca. I mention this right up front because without her continual encouragement, understanding and support I would not have had a career as an artist along with all the blessing and love of my lifetime companion and topmost treasure in life. Together, we managed to raise two wonderful kids, who are now off making their own way, and it’s our turn, again.

I remember how as a young kid my sisters and I would lie on our backs in the grass and gaze up at the clouds passing over us. We’d point out to each other the awesome things we saw forming there. Fanciful flowers, and faces with eyes that winked at us. Horses, and heroes of mighty proportions. Happy clowns, dreamy landscapes and beckoning seacoasts. We were elated by the magical beauty we found there, and were transported by what we saw in those clouds. We were alive!

Life is what we make of it. Seeing beauty is the gift we use to connect to the wonder of being alive. It’s a skill worth cultivating. Painting, and looking at paintings, is like that. The colors, the marks, the look of the paint; when they come together in that magical way, we’re transported, again, to enjoy the world we love. We all bring different background experiences to our perceptions, but in the act of making personal closure on simple harmonies we spark the enduring, pleasurable connections to a work of art. To paint well is an ongoing obsession that requires continual practice, and study, in the attempt to capture the ephemeral beauty of life. I suppose that’s the attraction in doing it - as well as in seeing it.

Making pictures has always been my passion and pursuit. I graduated from the University of Texas College of Fine Art, and then earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from Syracuse University. I’ve taught drawing and painting in the UT Fine Art college, and Austin Community College. I’ve worked, and won awards, as a freelance illustrator for over twenty years, always consumed by the desire to make better pictures. I’m an artist. I can’t imagine what else I’d do. I get up in the morning to paint, and go to bed imagining what’s next. I hope you’ll enjoy my paintings, and maybe be transported to touch the sense of beauty that you find within, again.