44 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE
| JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017
This elegant ballerina
is titled Fille and
is 24 inches tall.
Jim captured this
emotional moment
that gave her such
stress.
He catches his
subjects in flight at
a moment in time.
Throughout his school years,
he continued to be nicknamed
“The Art Kid” because of his
constant drawing. However,
after serving in the Navy on
a nuclear submarine, he was
advised to go into business if
he wanted to be able to raise a
family, since the earnings of an
artist tended to be low on the
scale of human endeavor. He
took that advice and spent the
next 40 years in business and
public life, where he became
very successful. But his love of
art never faded, and once he
retired, he decided to return to
that which he loved so much
during his youth.