After a 30-year career as an art and creative director, I started painting in 2007. I wanted to combine attributes of design with color, texture and movement to create paintings that have a passionate, energetic appeal, and invite viewers to interpret, from their own perspective, what they see and feel. My career in art started simply: constant doodling, using pencils, crayons and then pastels, while exploring color and how it created light and depth on paper – which led to a Gold Key in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards Competition. I graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting. I also received a Certificate in Art History from the School of Fine Arts at Boston University. While at Mass Art, I developed my design skills, and began creating and painting wall murals, which led to work with graphic design and architectural firms painting wall mural designs. Nypro Inc., in Clinton, MA, and Sun Federal Savings Bank, in Biddeford, ME, were the most notable projects. At this same time, two wall mural contests opened to students -- one for the MBTA (the ‘T’), and the other for the Boston Common Underground Garage. My designs won First Prizes in both contests. The garage murals are no longer visible; the ‘T’ murals at Kenmore Square are. Following the success of the contests, I was commissioned to design and paint murals for individuals and for the Charles River Apartment complex in Boston. Currently my paintings are being shown in group exhibitions and I have been featured in both print and TV -- an article in Artscope magazine; Redivider, the Emerson College Art and Literature Quarterly, the Spring 2009 issue; Tips & Picks, New York Arts Magazine, 01 - 02, 2009, P. 91; Best of America Watermedia Vol. II; Art Business News, February 2009; the Boston Neighborhood Network Television (BNN) program ‘It’s All About Arts’, hosted by Glenn Williams and Alivehood, New Careers As We Age, hosted by Karma Kitaj, on BATV.org. Steve Barylick in his studio.