Steven Allen Simpson (born, 1958) was drawn to nature and the visual arts at an early age. Growing up on Massachusetts' North Shore, his backyard was New England's woods and coastline. He says, 'A love of the land and ocean was my parents' greatest gift to me.' Enjoying drawing, watercolors, wood carving, photography and oil painting as a young man, he was inspired to study art in college, receiving his BA in Fine Art from Salem State University in 1982. Steven began a career in graphic arts and spent more than twenty years working for Sky & Telescope magazine, first as illustrator,...more
