While growing up in Idaho, Greg Stocks studied art and music throughout his school year. He then graduated from Utah State with a degree in art and illustration. While painting and music are his passions, Greg is currently employed as an illustrator and graphic designer in Utah.

"There is in this world a very real shortage of peace, of places where a person can be alone with their thoughts in a meditative yet engaging environment. My work is an effort to create such places, to build images that serve as emotional detours from the confusion and chaos of the surrounding world, if only for a moment.

"Having been a musician for many years I find the process of creating an image to be similar to that of writing a song. There is a distillation of visual information to reach the basic structure or rhythm or the work, after which the melody comes into play in the form of color, brushwork and the expressive possibilities of process and the application of media."

Greg is represented in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad. (See more artwork)