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I am a Professional Engineer with a national practice. Over 24,000 people have attended my live seminars and countless others have used my DVD training. My passion is abstract art.
This passion blossomed at the NCSU School of Design in 1961, when I participated in beta tests of new Liquitex acrylic formulations under Joe Cox and George Bireline. Leroy Nieman, Alexander Calder, Piet Mondrian, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock were early influences. In recent years, I have studied under Bob Rankin, Joe DiGiulio, Sterling Edwards, Judi Betts, and others. These people, plus Sharon DiGiulio, Michelle Theberge, and others, have inspired me to take my art craft to higher levels.

I just love color—particularly bright color! Whatever you want to say about life, passion is a great driving force. I enjoy breaking out of the mold and trying new things. Walking out on a limb sometimes leads to greater views from higher trees. I often learn more from a spectacular failure than from a successful piece—and I use failures to build more spectacular successes. 

I enjoy pushing the limits of modern acrylics using combinations of transparent watercolor techniques and opaque acrylic techniques in my Riots of Color Series. Each painting has a relatively benign underpainting overlaid with structured shapes of glazes of bright colors and complementary opaque areas. I have taught the use of acrylic glazes at Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh NC.

My Earth Series resulted from a conscious effort to concentrate more on balance and value contrast using rich (rather than bright) complementary and contrasting colors. For many of these paintings, small splashes of bright color play against the main design to create movement.

My Southwest Series also allows me to explore the use of bright colors with more earthly colors, but in a very structured format.

Over the years, I have been enthralled by several works of art made in handmade cast paper. These works vary from the very simple to the extremely complex in texture. They formed the inspiration for my Cast Acrylic Series. 

My Dots and Lines Series is playful. Most of these paintings use muted colors with a few bright spots or lines playing off against the basic design. Most of these paintings have simple designs, with simple color schemes, but also have lots going on to entertain the viewer.

The Oriental Flowers Series explores the muted colors of spring and summer flowers in a relatively structured format. It is amazing how such simple formats can be so pleasing to the eye.

Fans have been used forever to create mystery, revealing as much behind the fan as the user wants to viewer to or imagine! This is the inspiration for my Fan Series. Fans can be fun, or flirtatious—or even just plain naughty.

Allen may be contacted at 919-782-7745 or through his website