Ron Hayward

To get a full understanding of Emerald City and what I hope to accomplish as an artist may I first explain my journey and how it all happen.

Since I could remember I was always fascinated with big natural and made made structures. I just love to view large areas of the landscape from high above. I have been bless to live in a number of places with incredible views of nature and large urban areas.

For most of my life I've had the desire to design and build entire cities from my own imagination. Knowing this would be impossible for me to do out of real brick, steel and glass, I thought it might be best to build my cities in the form of art . Unfortunately this also proved impossible for me to do in the way I had really wanted to do it. So for many years I was limited to drawing one building at a time or small sections of a city mostly on paper .

Then in 1984 I had my first experience using computers at Bank Of America in Los Angeles. I didn't foresee at the time of what the capability of computers would be today. About 16 years later I purchase my first computer and it opened a whole new world for me. I used it mostly for typing letters and and editing photographs. By then I had pretty much given up on the idea of creating...