Phil Sandusky

Phil Sandusky is a renowned plein air landscape painter whose background in physics and engineering has led him to become a liaison between vision science and the representational painting community. He began academic art intruction at age nine continuing through graduation from college. Concurrent with his studies of traditional art outside of a university system which during the 1970s strongly empasized modern art, Sandusky's aptitude in math/science led him to earn a BA in physics from Jacksonville University. He was employed as an engineer in the oil industry in 1980 and received many promotions and had a dual career as an artist but left engineering in 1991 to pursue art full time. The absence of science in Sandusky's life after leaving engineering spawned his interest in visual psychophysics, an inportant underpinning of visual art often overlooked by artists who typically have little scientific interest. Sandusky's articles in American Artist magazine and the text of his art books bridge vision science to artists and laymen, explaining in simple terms the counterintuitive, fascinating true nature of our vision and how it relates to art.