My name is Richard Maul – R. Maul as my artwork is signed – and I was born in a 17” snowstorm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1947. Growing up in Wisconsin, I had an idyllic childhood, playing in wide-open fields and forests, chasing frogs, and looking for garter snakes. My first interest in art started when I was perhaps 7 or 8 and I enjoyed drawing birds and other animals. In 1965, I left Wisconsin and went south to study art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated with a BFA in art.
