Western Art Biography

Roy enjoys the visual balance between reality and imagination. Because he paints primarily historical aviation paintings but also enjoys painting western, native American and Mountain Men subjects, his life has been an incredible odyssey traveled between the four subjects he likes the most. When Roy lived in Santa Fe many years ago, he became a strong participant in the traditional realism that tells the stories so much desired by art collectors of the historical periods of the West.  Roy was invited to become a member of the Cowboy Artists in 1988. Presently, Roy and his wife Irene reside in Little Elm, Texas, which is a suburb of Dallas.

Roy’s western, native American and mountain men works hang in many private collections around the country, and in the permanent collections of Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, Museum of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cheyenne Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Booth Museum in Cartersville, Ga,, The Pearce Art Collection at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, and U.S. West, Denver, Colorado.