I have no academic degree or formal training in the visual arts, but my
visual education started when I opened my eyes for the first time. Now, more than 65 years later, this schooling is nowhere near completion. But looking is not the same as seeing. I discovered seeing sometime in my teen years.

Pictures started casting spells over me. I did not look for it. It came looking for me. And I don't know where it came from, but there it was. All I could do was follow. I felt compelled to capture the never-ending spectacle that light flaunts in front of my eyes. And I wanted to show others that magic, to let them see the wondrous sights that are hidden within all the countless elements that confront our vision---to find the invisible in the visible. Life and nature are so rich even small fragments can be shaped into images full of magic and wonder. The commonplace can become miraculous when you recognize it.

I learned how to transfer my seeing into visual images by reading books and looking at the works of masters, but mostly from practice, practice, and more practice. This was shuffled with earning a medical degree in 1963, then taking care of patients as an obstetrician and gynecologist until I retired from private practice in 1997. I take it that the art world, in accepting my work in national exhibitions, juried competitions, galleries and museums from 1974 to 2003, should serve as some kind of formal academic
approval or accreditation.

George Zucconi