Quite often, the most frequently asked
question Arthur gets is, "How long have you
been drawing?" That is always hard to answer.
It would have been more appropriate to respond to, "Why he began drawing?"

Arthur was born a military brat, as so many others, destined to move about the world never settling in one place to plant any seeds of stability. Being moved around from state to state, country to country, school to school can be very rough on a child. Gaining acceptance was an ongoing ordeal.

He began drawing in a effort to gain that acceptance and in doing so nurtured his inherited talent with such driven passion that it seemed to win over even the hardest of individuals. In all of his family's travels, he made and lost a lot of friends but none as loyal and ever lasting as his artwork.

No matter where his family moved to, or how briefly they stayed (two weeks once) his art was always there; always there for him to talk to, to comfort him, to get him to the next town and beyond. It has never left or betrayed him and this gift of divinity shall never be betrayed by him! "Behold His Mighty Hand" - Moses, The Ten Commandments.

Arthur's first published piece came about during a brief stay in Fayetteville, North Carolina in a local children's column at the age of 7. His traveling continued as well as his range of artistic achievements. He found a "Home" in Wilmington, North Carolina in which his high school (the last of 22 schools) and especially three teachers in particular saw my potential and commissioned him with murals and drawings that as he reflects, were the catalyst and confidence builder he was looking for and needed. Immediately after high school, Arthur enlisted in the US Army for two years.

This lead to his first professionally commissioned artistic piece. He was asked by a female chaplain's assistant to help her create a memorial bulletin for female soldiers.

The local chaplain was so impressed, that he saw to it that the bulletin became accepted world wide by the United States Army to be used at all female service members funerals. With much anticipation, Arthur left the military in 1987 to attend East Carolina's School of Art to pursue his decided career as a commercial artist.

He graduated three and half years later with a B.A. in Communications Arts with a concentration in Illustration.

Still wandering, Arthur worked for several ad agencies and freelanced for years, being published in newspapers, designing CD covers, doing portraits of celeberties such as Vanessa Williams, En Vouge, and Patti Labelle, finding a home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Divorced and remarried now working as a Multimedia Instructor and aspiring Illustrator and Web Designer, Arthur is living in St. Louis.

He has since set goals to own his own magazine, to be a pre-eminent web designer (22 sites in one year and counting) and an illustrator.

Through it all, the friend Arthur was searching for was within himself all the time, right by his side, accepting him for who he was and promising to be there until the very last.

I was astonished by the vision, yet no one understood it...
Daniel 8:27