Biographical
Information
Personal:
I am a first-generation Italian-American,
born in 1941. I grew up in
Connecticut in the 1940's and 50's.
I was educated at Central Connecticut
State University (BA, 1965 - Biology and
Math), and at the University of
Connecticut (Ph.D. 1969 - Comparative
Neurophysiology and Bio-Engineering). I
have been married to Dorinne
since 1964, and have 3 grown children
(Philip-1965, Rebecca--1968, and
Paul-1970). Our
family has lived in
Connecticut, Florida, Virginia, Ohio and,
since 1979, in
Southern Coastal
Maine.
Professional:
I spent my professional career as a biological scientist, studying the neuro-muscular
mechanisms
which control animal movements, especially
walking. I also
taught Human Physiology in Graduate and
Medical
Schools at 4
different Universities for 37 years.You can see my entire Professional
Resume here.
Artistic: I’ve always been
driven by an urge to create things with my
hands; furniture, robots, ceramic pottery,
and machines. Mostly, however, I've been
fascinated by miniatures of all kinds, 3-dimensional
expression,
fine details, and industrial
subjects which were weathered, and
neglected.
I began as a
Model Railroader but, here in Maine, I have
also created automata, robots, and even
rolling-ball kinetic sculpture. I have also
sculpted my own figures to go with the scale
model trains,
and ended up in business; selling hundreds
of my figure castings all over the world.
When I retired, in 2007, I expanded my
sculpture experience to larger pieces in
fired and glazed
ceramic clay, and have sold many of my
ceramic sculptures in local Galleries.
Most recently, however, I have been creating
scale models and Dioramas. I think of each
scene as a
3-D painting, and pay attention to the
theme, colors, composition, details, and
finish. I try to make
everything myself, from scratch, but do use
a few commercial items.
Click HERE
to see a recent newspaper article about my
artistic creations.
Contact
me at cspirito41@gmail.com
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