WYNO VIEW

Established in March 2015

I believe that I was born to express myself through art. Around the age of seven, I found my dad’s drawing board and drafting T-square, and immediately began designing planes, space ships and houses. I was hooked.  As the years passed, I always found time to doodle and sketch most anything. During my senior year of high school, I was accepted into The Pittsburgh Institute of Art. Realizing that I did not have the finances to do so at that time, I began working in an industrial setting to earn a stable income. Unfortunately, I found my art slowly becoming an afterthought.

 In 1992, I started working for a company called S.D. Myers and became a coil winder. It allowed me to develop many industrial skills to perform multiple tasks.  I developed into a strong reliable worker. After eighteen years and four transformer companies later, I worked my way up to supervision. That led me to my last position as an Industrial Engineering Technician, for a plastic injection shop. I did find the work challenging and right up my alley.  Unfortunately, it only lasted for a little over a year before the company downsized and I was forced to search for work again.

This time something was different, a switch turned on, and my passion for art was stronger than ever before. In 2009, a friend who knows me as a self-taught harmonica player pushed me to join him and his band onstage.  Never had I played public and I was so happy for the opportunity.  I felt myself transform from not just a 20-year industrial worker, but back at being my artist at doing something I love.  Soon after that, I was inspired by and collaborated with a local school teacher who began showing me my new art form, and the video era began. Over the past eight years, I have been learning all that I can to develop my skills and become a Visual Communications Specialist.