About the Artist...

Randy's fascination with aviation and art stem from his early childhood, always spending his free moments sketching any available aircraft or landscape at hand.  At 16, he worked for the local fixed-base operator at his hometown airport in DeKalb, Illinois, then a former Naval Pilot Training facility.  His exposure to the day-to-day operations added further to his skills as an artist, helping maintain and service all manner of civilian and transiting military aircraft (always with sketchbook close at hand).  He traded his early illustrations and paintings for "stick-time"  and eventually earned his private pilot's license before his drivers license!  In addition to many single engine civilian aircraft, he has piloted hang-gliders, gyrocopters, and completed static-line parachute jumps.   

Randy graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in  Illustration, Painting & Design. Since 1985, he's worked as a freelance illustrator in Maine and Virginia, basing his work on first-hand observation gained through many hours spent in the air.  It is this experience and opportunity that he feels as being the greatest instructor an aviation artist could have. 

     Illustrating  historical aviation & military subjects on canvas is Randy's hallmark, and it has earned him extensive recognition as a prominent aviation artist worldwide.  He currently resides with his wife and family in  Northern Virginia.