الطبيعة كما نراها في أحلامنا

The art world of his childhood and youth
was the brave new world of abstract expressionism and until he was well
out of college his natural inclination to draw accurately and his love
for traditional realism was a source of inner conflict. Nevertheless he
was fortunate, starting at age 17, to receive a thorough grounding in
academic figure drawing and painting from the portrait painter Alvin
Gittins at the University of Utah, and after exploring other styles he
followed his heart into traditional art.