Though technically I am a native Californian (I was born in Fresno), I grew up in Chicago Illinois.  I studied painting and print making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1983 I left art school to pursue a career in the performing arts as an actor and standup comedian (you can check me out on IMDB). In 2018 I returned to painting.

     I’m into southern California sunlight, the brightness of it, the feel of it, what it does to color. I like my compositions to be off-center, pushing objects to the edges of the canvas, at the same time inviting the viewer to consider the blueness of a clear sky, a crack in the pavement or reflections on the water. I’m asking the viewer to discover  colors within colors of sunlight hitting a wall. All the while feeling something of the world just beyond the painting, like the heat of the sun overhead, a sense of something just around a corner or on the other side of a fence, a world just out of view but felt thru light, shadows and reflection. I’m looking for a vibe, a sense of calm, a stillness. I want the viewer to want to be immersed in it.

“Seagren’s work invites the viewer to enter another dimension of peaceful color, bathed in mid-morning sun”