March 1, 1946 -

Born - Clovis, New Mexico

 

Perrygallery.com displays artwork I have created including photos I have taken. My intent for the website is to share pieces that I have a particular interest in and potentially so may you. 

 

The art I create and the photos I take are representative of my personality, thought process, and interests. These three areas continue to evolve as my circumstances and experiences expand. 

 

“All children are artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.” (Pablo Picasso) In other words, how does one maintain that ever-flowing enthusiastic creativity that children have?

 

The search for subject matter can stimulate creativity. I am drawn to abstract geometric shapes. My eye or my mind's eye searches for shapes and in particular recurring patterns. I find these in nature, cityscapes, aerial photography, and potentially anywhere. I feel a special delight when confronted with atmospheric disturbances.

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Landscape photography was my original photographic interest. cityscapes, seascapes to farmland. Finding the best scene, light, atmospheric condition, time of day, and so much more goes into a photo worth keeping. I was once told when setting up a shot to look behind me, it could present a better opportunity.

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My first visit to Cuba was in 2011.  I took hundreds of photographs of people. People at work in the tobacco fields, smoking a Cuban cigar on a street corner, having coffee in their living room, children playing baseball in the middle of a street that looks to have been the epicenter of the last hurricane. Beautiful people, unusual people, and sometimes in unusual circumstances. Photographing people had never been a primary interest for me prior to this trip. 

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Photographing people in Cuba encouraged my interest. How people appear, what interesting situations they find themselves in, the environment they live in, and perhaps most intrinsic is the story each person carries with them. In taking a photograph of a person or people you will find inevitably there is a story to be told.