Dennis was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1951 and spent most of his childhood in the artist's community of Carmel Valley, California.  He lived in Salinas Valley during his teen years and then made his adult home in the Sierra foothills of El Dorado County, California.

        Art has been a prefix in his endeavors whether it be art-ist or art-isan: from a carpentry apprenticeship to Master Builder, all the while pursuing his ultimate form of expression through paint and canvas.  "So many of our thoughts are as varied as the images that kindled them, and sometimes we are too hurried to focus on and retain those particular images that evoke in us a calm, and a realization of the surrounding beauty."  He feels if with patterns of light, color, and form he can capture these images for others, then there is a purpose in what he has chosen to do.

        The artist uses acrylics and sometimes pen and ink to created his chosen Earth's Images.