About the Artist and Poet

Wilfred Croteau was born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1930.
After studying art in Boston, he went to Paris in 1954 and studied
at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. During this period, he associated
with many American and European artists such as Sam Francis,
Karel Appel, John Hultberg, Kumi Sugai, Atsuko Tanaka, and Antoni
Tapies. While in Paris, his own style of abstract expressionism evolved.
He was involved in many group shows and in 1957 had his first one-man
show at the Galerie Crueze in Paris. He has had many shows in the
States and now lives in Northbridge, Massachusetts.


Raffael de Gruttola was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1935.
He has two books of poetry published, Where Ashes Float in 1980 and
Flamenco Song in 1983. His first book of haiku, Recycle, was published in
1989. He is a past president and treasurer of The Haiku Society of America.
He was a founding member of The Boston Haiku Society. He has known
Wilfred Croteau for more than twenty-five years and their collaboration
with haiga, which produced Echoes in Sands started in 1994. He now
resides in Natick, Massachusetts.

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