The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. thank you for your interest.The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. I have traveled extensively throughout the world The rest is yet to come. I immigrated to Australia from Europe with my parents when I was a young child. I live on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia where I have two studios and have a third studio in Fitzroy Melbourne which I visit several times each year to do street art. I primarily like to work with ink on paper, but am versed with oils and acrylics and enjoy making and using collage and creating sculpture. I am a self represented full time artist. ![]() My illustrations, cartoons and artworks have been reproduced in books and other printed periodicals. My work has been acquired and is included in interesting private,corporate and public collections and many Hotels throughout the world. I have held several solo exhibitions, and have been included in numerous group and collective shows. I was employed and served as an 'illustrator reprographic' in the Australian Army, This job included regimental photography and related darkroom procedures, endless map and other drawings old skool freehand and 3d model making. I have formally studied commercial and graphic art and hold an advanced certificate in visual communication. So my drawing abilities seem to have developed in natural progression giving me the ability to freely use a number of distinct styles and approaches. ![]() I draw obsessively every single day filling books with ideas, cartoons and drawings. I never pick the image for the pages or visa-versa they just collide as chance permits, any meaning they may have is purely created by the observer and their own imaginings." I have drawn since childhood and as other children stop at some point in their development I never did. "Right now I like making ink drawings on adhered together sheets of vintage book paper, there is a fragility to these images that I find interesting (as if the wind may blow them away at any moment) and the hand drawn stark black lines against the intricate printed words of the book pages offer a strange fusion and depth that seems to give the images a kind of 'meaning' and back story, even though unconnected in a contrived way.
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