" I want my paintings to show the beauty of God`s creation and man`s involvement with it

Artist Profile

Born 1958 to a coal minning family in Willaimson ,West Virginia, Allen has always loved to draw and paint.
He moved to Richmond, Va. with his brother Edward and his mother Elizabeth after the death of his father in 1961. They settled in the museum district near the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. There he was exposed to many ofthe old master painters work and some of the modern day artist work such as, Warhol and his favorite Wayne Thiebaud.

He has studied at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Painting and Print Making and Art Instruction School in Minneapolis Minnesota. He is currently studing under master artist Barry John Raybould via the internet. Allen moved to Kenbride in 2004. His paintings are currently in the Galeria Gallery in Clarksville, Va. and in the Petersburg Regional Art Center in Petersburg, Va. where he has a studio. His paintings have been in galleries as far north as Nebraska and as far north as Philadelphia. He is a member of The Oil Painters of America, The Petersburg Area Artist League, and Richmond`s Visual Art Center.