“My primary interest has been with the human figure because it is us. In recent years I have also been working with landscape because we live in it.

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My ideas for paintings come from things I see, think, feel, know and experience. I do not make things up. Painting is a visual art form and must therefore speak in a visual language. If you can not see it, only think it, it is not there. I work whenever possible directly from the source. Visual reference allows more freedom and is more truthful. I concentrate on idea, color and structure for a feeling of believability and totality.”

Wayne’s first exhibition was 1969 Indiana Artists, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana and has exhibited extensively ever since. He is a Longyear Gallery member and also serves on the Board of AMR Artists Inc.

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