Robert Morrissey is a painter, photographer, teacher, and therapist. He was born in Worcester Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Portland Oregon. He is a Licensed Art therapist and Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor. He teaches in the Addictions Counseling Program of Portland Community College. He received an MA from New York University and studied at The Art Students League. He has worked in the Behavioral Health field for the past 25 years in NYC, LA and Portland. His work as a painter and photographer seeks to explore relationships – one’s relationship to the environment, to one another, to oneself, as well to our deepest fears and desires. His work is equally preoccupied with exploring the overlapping connections to and relationships amongst the formal elements that comprise painting and photography within the broader context of visual communication.