Retired pharmacist (CVS Pharm) , I live in Darlington, SC. Always been a doodler with drawings of misc. things. Born in Lumberton, NC and attended Lumberton HS through 10th grade, 11th grade was Myers Park HS ,Charlotte,NC, then finished 12th at Chadbourn HS in 1959. No formal painting instruction , I believe that I began to make paintings when a back injury (disc rupture) allowed me to draw and watercolor a picture of my bedridden condition.( See the painting 'Art or Boredom ?' among my paintings). After a series of paintings, I stopped for a...more