Bio Paul Pratchenko has drawn and painted professionally for thirty years. He is a 55-year-old man who still enjoys climbing, looking at and planting trees among other things. He teaches painting and drawing at San Francisco State University where he is a professor of art. He exhibits locally at Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco. Reflection From the once vast oak forests of central Europe, from the unrecorded past, comes "Green Man". Green Man is the ancient male counterpart to Mother Earth. He carries the hint of archetypal fears regarding the dark forest. He has been revered in Celtic and Germanic traditions among others. Once in residence in the great oak grove that predates Chartres, Green Man has recently been seen in the remaining California oak groves. Here then, a glimpse of Green Man.