Jeff Foster

A native of Northwest Mo. Growing up primarily in the St. Joseph Mo. and then moving to Maryville Mo. Mixing digital painting and photography in a series of concrete and fluid narratives. Wirh a wide family influence of television,radio and music that has shaped my vision as an artist. Equally influenced by the old masters as well as todays technology. I slao do assemblage sculpture as an extension of the digital worlds that define my work. I am self taught and began in art with playing the drums and writing poetry. Having has some success as a poet with two book published. Having come to all of these more or less individually I now places these influences together in my creative world. Coming to photography and digital painting late in life (2000) the computer and the camera opened up the pictures I had in my mind that before only words had been the outlet. Starting with disposable and then 110 and 35 MM and then progressing to digital and getting my first computer and software I began to experiment and explore. And also studying other photographers,painters, and sculptures. I am a avid book collector and still love music as part of the creative process. My primary discipline is hard to pin down, a combonation of many thing.