Vernon Fowlkes is a landcape painter intrigued by the dynamic nature of water-based media. He has fallen in love with the paint's active participation in the creative process, allowing the medium's movement and flow and to suggest, even dictate, a painting’s final form and subject matter. As a result, his paintings are primarily adventures in improvisation.

Fowlkes worked in advertising and information technology during his career of over thirty years. He has also enjoyed a lifelong passion for poetry and is an active writer.