I have been living in two worlds for my entire life, the hard streets of the world we see before us and the world out of the window, beyond the fields we know. I am grateful for the gift of imagination and for the talent I was given to illustrate what I see on my excursions into Faerie land. I hope I will always visit there and come back with stories, pictures and songs to share.

   I am blessed to have worked as a giftware designer with S&D Limoges, Lenox China, The Hamilton Collection, Fitz&Floyd and Faroy and the famous Christmas Store of Tyler, Texas. Gratefully I have had the opportunity to work for and with my friend Raymond Kelly of Dallas and the great sculptor, Michael Boyett of Nacogdoches.

  My giftware has sold through Neiman-Marcus, Gump's, Nordstrom, Walt Disney World, Jefferson's Monticello Collection and other wonderful outlets, including Ebay! Five of my porcelain boxes were featured in The Decorative Art of LIMOGES Porcelain & Boxes  by Keith and Thomas Waterbrook-Clyde.

Now I illustrate my ideas to sell as drawings, paintings and prints.

  Please visit my site often as I offer a continually changing exhibit of sketches and paintings that document my lifelong journey through the land of my imagination. Thank you! JRY