Greg Swann developed his skill in basic portraiture as a 4 th grader by drawing model after model after model from the latest JC Penny catalogue whenever he got time after homework was finished. His work for school newspapers and yearbooks, while at times amateurish, nevertheless entertain in a barrage of hokey cartoonhiss and mundane illustrations and clever magazine style layouts. After a minor nervous breakdown in 1987, he began to paint in oils on canvas. He developed what some might call his “style” from visiting museums near and ar, gravitating toward a desire to portray the times as an artistic chronicler of natural scenes as they transpire using composition and color and lighting techniques seen in Vermeer and El Greco and Van Gogh and Wyeth, or Manet and Monet and Renoir and Rockwell, or Cezanne to Serat to Gaugin to Chagall to Picasso to Dali. However audacious hat may sound—his paintings always start with a consciously thought out challenge, leading to a theme and subject search before the actual work begins. You can recognize any of his paintings by the signature accompanied by a six petal flower.