Fine Art & Books
My Fine Art Portfolio
Painting is also a form of visual design. The aim of an artist to guide a beholder through the narrative of a painting is quite similar to the goals of the designer in user-centered design. The artist uses compositional techniques and color to engage the beholder, tell a story, and evoke emotion. The designer uses similar tools but also patterns, icons, typography, and animation to help guide users to complete the tasks associated with their own user stories.
I also have experience in book design, another form of visual design. Typography, grids, color, and the proper use of white space are as important in books as they are in digital media. Establishing a sense of style that conveys the core values associated with a project’s branding is critical to all successful visual designs. As a landscape artist, I generally strived to imbue the core values of adventure, peace, and spiritual uplift to my paintings and book designs. The cover images, titles, and typefaces of the books pictured here are all consistent with those values or emotions.
I have authored, designed, and self-published seven books of my art and poetry. Six of them are pictured here.
My Great Peacemakers Project
During the course of this project, I was particularly interested in exploring common themes in the biographies or philosophies of these exemplars. I discovered five such common themes or principles. It also became clear that these principles have been around since at least Greek antiquity. I, therefore, decided to use the Greek names in discussing them. The fifth, and most important principle, is the concept of “henosis,” or oneness. The video below presents my own spine-tingling experience with henosis.
Presentation of my Albert Schweitzer painting and the mystical experience that accompanied it.
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