In September 2001, my partner and I were on a long-planned vacation in Italy with friends. Chance had us at a coffeeshop in San Gimignano when the horror of the attacks on the U.S. unfolded on television.
I am a digital artist who uses Photoshop to transform reality. My starting point is either a digital photograph, or a scanned paper collage or a photograph.
I have never felt that an artist could improve on nature, but I have always tried to interpret, through my work, how nature presents itself to me. I consider myself an abstract naturalist artist.
I lived in Nyack, NY in the late 60's and throughout the 1970's. On one of my many excursions to New York City, I took these pictures of the World Trade Center towers.
Boyd Sharp was born in 1938 and like many artists he grew up in an artistic family. Indoor activities were common during the long cold winters of the northern United States, where Boyd spent his childhood years.
