I was born in Glendale, Ca in 1971. In 1993 I graduated with a BFA from UC Berkeley. I now live in Berkeley, CA, with my daughter Lydia. My grandfather, Chief Terry Saul, a formidable Choctaw painter and illustrator, passed along his name and his paint brushes to me. In Los Angeles, my original stomping ground, there sits a stucco-coated house, topped by what appears to be a magical Tori gate, on a street with no name, surrounded by journalists and the Angeles National Forest, where mud slides collect power.
Now, in the empty nest, my father plays Dobro, a lap-sitting, resonator guitar played with finger picks and a slide. In the 70's he studied photography with Edmund Teske. He continues to practice and teach photography, sharing a website with Mama Saul. My mother is a painter and sculptor, recently elected VP of Exhibitions for Pasadena Society of Artists. My older brother is a fast-talking, wrestling sailor. My infantile and most profound influences include — nudity, hippy poets, terriers, guinea pigs, rabbits, pencils, S.I., reporters, political cartoons, college radio, small motorcycles, splinters, whales, tribal ancestors, punk rock , beach-combers, little earthquakes, hanging chairs, pinecones, helicopters, green vegetables, Elmer's Glue, the cries of wild peacocks, flameproof pajamas, Orion, footage of Vietnam, bamboo wall-coverings, the Santa Ana winds, knickers, Reaganomics, Carl Sagan, nihilism, Nuclear War, coffee, bedposts, Dada, Rothko, Guston, closets, and High School Greco-Roman Wrestlers.
Favorite artists include — Martin McMurray, Philip Guston, James Ensor, Luc Tuymans, Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Lucien Freud, Stanley Spencer, Katharina Fritsch, Francisco Goya, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Dubuffet , Paul Klee, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcel Duchamp, Bill Traylor, Joan Miro, Georg Baselitz, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Vija Celmins, Joseph Mallord William Turner, and various Pacific Northwest and Inuit Artists.
Work has been sold through the following galleries: Women and Their Work in Austin Texas, Texas Fine Arts Association (now called Arthouse at the Jones Center) in Austin Texas, Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UCBerkeley in Berkeley, California and Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco, California.
