C J. Pyle (Christopher John Pyle) was born July 5th, 1956 in Richmond Indiana.
"I had never seen anything like my woven-knot technique before I developed it, so there was no inspiration for it, really. I just loved the act of drawing and had been drawing consistently since about age 12. I guess if you do something that much over the years you might discover something, and I think that I did.
As a child, I loved the detailed ink work of Basil Wolverton and also loved making rope knots--I tied hundreds of them -- and became fixated on the weave of the rope. So those two inspirations somehow found its way into my personal artwork many years later; they're the foundation for my work.
I like making two-colour portraits; I don't really know why I just do. As a kid, drawing faces is what I fixated on. I also find creating an image with limited colour much more challenging than one created with many colours."