Circus, oil on canvas painted as a parody of the art department circa 1975

The first oil painting during my artist and residency at Kelvin Grove College of advanced education in Brisbane Australia. I took a small house in the Red Hill section of the city and did many paintings which resulted in two exhibitions one at the Ray Hugh's Gallery in Brisbane which received good critical acclaim in the Brisbane Courier Mail the main newspaper of the city, and the second exhibition was at the Colleg art gallery. The college has since become part of brisbane U.

Neil Painting, oils painted in Macomb when Neil
Chassman, Don Hetzel{then a grad student} and myself shared a studio for
a summer in Macomb. This painting illustrates my sometimes use of heavy
impasto paint. My style which inherits a degree of Expressionism from my
teacher the late Karl Zerbe (a student of the world renoun German Expressionist
Max Beckman). I studied with Karl Zerbe, David Aaronson, who has shown
in Boston and New York and is represented in major museums and Reed Kay
who just had an exhibition in Boston. Though I have delved into the realm
of abstract painting I always return to the figurative mode painting landscapes,
still lives

Artist as Prophet. I did three selfportraits in
the Macomb Studio and this one appeared to Neil Chassman to resemble the
intense look of a prophet which is how the title came about. We had the
job of watering the plants for the students we were subleasing the studio
from so I figured I could put them to good use as grist for my artistic
mill.. My paintings can be broken up into a few periods, the school paintings
which included my European Traveling scholarship paintings and the ones
I did in fifth year as well as some as an undergraduate at the Boston Museum
school. Then there were the Boston rooftop series which were painted from
the three appartments that I rented in Boston. I also did still lives and
figure paintings at the time but was mostly known as a landscape painter.
Then there was a group of large abstract paintings painted in 1962 just
as I was turning 30 years old and in 1967 a move to Illinois which resulted
in an excperimental period which lasted until my return to the figuritive
mode with the Macomb Sudio and then the Brisbane paintings. In 1971 there
began the move into the world of computer art and finally in conjunction
with Toga the Develpment of Togolot Music. I will also share my writings
as this hompepage develops

Reclining Nude 1976, another painting in oil from
the Macomb Studio. We all drew from the model whom we hired privately and
I did the painting from one of my drawings.

My move into computer art began in 1971 with when my father suggested we enter
a computer art contest. He programmed about 50 programs and I did over
a thousand computer drawings with a plotter and a small computer HP computer
that had only 10,000 bites.  In 1992 he bought a 486 pc and I did
a large number of works using Windows Paint and finally Photostyler

With Window's paint I was able to produce textures using the scrolling of the lines and layering them.

My father purchased a handheld black and white scanner which I used to scan from his subscription to Time Magazine and instpiered by the senate confirmation hearings I produced this work. I was still using Window's paint which at the time was limited to 16 colors when we purchased Aldus's Photo Styler I was able to enrich the colors.

Emirs inspired by events in the middle east

I have always had a fondness for old machines which inspired "Sport"