ART CORNELL An acclaimed photographer, poet and painter of abstract art, Art Cornell has been creating images and writing poetry for the better part of forty years. During that time he traveled extensively around the world before retiring with his wife Marcia, to Hilton Head Island, SC. Art has published five books of poetry that incorporate his black and white photographs. In addition, he has received numerous awards for his photographs and dramatic abstract paintings. ARTIST STATEMENT At the heart of everything I do is a passion for excellence of expression. I want each photograph canvas and book to be better than the one before. Self-taught, my desire to exhibit my photographic works and paintings came late in life; thus, the title for my work, "Driven to Abstraction."
