Cicero Greathouse has been a professional artist for more than 30 years and is the recipient of the State of Florida Individual Artist Grant and the Central Florida Art Services Council Individual Artist Grant, among others. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. His paintings are in numerous corporate, government and private collections.

A main source of inspiration is travel. Excursions to Japan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, Thailand and other ports of call throughout Asia and the world have fed his wanderlust as well as influenced his art. The colors, patterns, symbols and ceremonies of other cultures are a mainstay of his work. As a result of exposure to these cultures, an atmosphere in his work has evolved that is reflective and interior, similar to his persona. Greathouse also has a home and studio in the mountains of Mexico where he and his wife remain ever captivated by that exotic and ancient land.

See Cicero's Resume for details of his career.

Artist Statement

"Becoming an artist is the result of some of my earliest interests. Stylistically, abstract painting became my focus as a reaction to early art training. While satisfied with my academic drawing and painting skills, I became more interested in abstract art and it's philosophical underpinnings. The idea and concept is the foundation on which materials and techniques are built. It is the idea rather than the object that is the focus and reason behind art."

"And just what are these ideas and concepts? I am intrigued with symbolic images, structures, rituals. These are a stimulating source of inspiration in my practice. While my work has a sense of the transcendent it is not done to mimic or seek an identity in a long lost style or current trend, it is done because what I make is what I am compelled to make. There are techniques and imagery employed that are a means to construct the objects of my ideas and concepts. I rely highly on my intuition and process, through which the painting is revealed. I am a non-objective painter."

~ Cicero Greathouse