"I have been doing art of some sort most of my life. This kind of follow-through is a new adventure for me. It began rather innocently when I started playing with some digital photographs on my computer. The process reminded me of playing with crayons or finger paints as a child. I was having fun, and I got lost in the process. Inevitably, there would come a point where I would like what had become of the image I started with, and I would stop working on it and save it.

Joel Hoyer says, "The relationship between materials, process, and ideas has fascinated me since age 14 when I began making my own paints out of plan materials, dry pigments with various binders. My first canvases included the walls of our basement at home where I imitated cave painters by using animal fat and dry pigment to create images. One of my paintings from those early days is still in my collection."