Caricatures By Gene Mater & Co - Philadelphia Caricatures Artist in Philadelphia PA
His performance and wit as a caricatures artist will add a special note of humor to your special event.

Gene Mater is a California-born French-American artist, who spent six years of his youth living and traveling in Europe. His earliest artistic influences were the museums and architecture of southern Germany.

Gene opened his first art studio in ****. His career has covered a range of activities in the commercial and fine arts fields. He was a political cartoonist for nine years, has illustrated more than a dozen books, and has drawn for numerous national magazines. He worked for several years as a commercial illustrator, when his clients included numerous colleges, banks and regionally and nationally prominent businesses.

Since the early ****s he has focused attention on watercolor painting. He is influenced by the works of the Norwich School of English watercolorists that flourished in the early ****s.

Gene was drawn to caricaturing in the ****s, first as a political cartoonist, subsequently as an artist/entertainer.

He applies his experience, sensitivity and intensity to all his endeavors, whether entertaining an appreciative audience of corporate VIPs in a lounge on the QE*, or creating a sensitively rendered watercolor of a favorite view in Europe or Pennsylvania.

An Evening with Gene Mater
This is an evening of uncanny---and guaranteed---likenesses, combined with hours of storytelling and conversations with your guests. The topics reflect a broad range of interests: art, of course, life in the corporate culture, history, travel, foreign languages (he is multilingual), metaphysics, human relationships...

Gene is humorous, upbeat, discerning, and gentle with his subjects. Whether it's a gathering of special friends at your home, office or club, an event for select clients and associates at a special location, Gene's performance and wit will add a special note of humor to your evening!

Among other cities, Caricatures by Gene Mater & Co may serve the following areas: Philadelphia, Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Harrisburg, Reading, Lancaster, Valley Forge, York, Levittown, Camp Hill, Norristown, Hanover, Wayne, West Chester, Concordville, Emmaus, Langhorne, Lehigh Valley, Media, Southeastern, Beaver Springs, Blue Bell, Blue Ridge Summit, Chester, Conshohocken, Danville, Frackville, Gettysburg, Harleysville