From growing up in inner city Detroit to being stationed in Korea during the Vietnam war to bicycling across North America and running a non-profit rites-of-passage sailing school for youth to his now reclusive life exploring organic film-making his artwork spans more than three decades of North-American influence and life. Still his art is more a reflection of his own thoughts, feelings and dreams than of the world around him.

The House of Talifero houses 8 collections with over 70 original oil paintings, watercolors and drawings. Talifero won the Gale Research Outstanding Emerging Illustrator award for his illustrations for "The Bridge Dancers" in 1992 for CarolRhoda Press re-published by McGraw-Hill in 2002, illustrated the cover for "Walking the Spiritual Walk" published by A.R.E. Press in 1995, has had a national best-selling line of greeting cards distributed by Ethnographics and an illustrated children's book accepted for publication by Africa World Press, launched an acclaimed Afrocentric egreetings website featuring over 300 pieces of his work which he sold in 2000, and has sold his original artwork internationally for over 30 years.

Talifero's works are exquisitely intricate and highly detailed. He works in oils, pencil, and pen and ink. He is also a print-maker pulling etchings on a wooden etching press he designed and built after the style of the old masters' presses. Talifero is a skilled book-binder and binds his etchings and originals in carved leather and leather-inlay books. But one of his favorite passtimes is jade hunting, scuba diving in the ocean off of Big Sur, California in search of the green stone. Always adding new skills to his repetoire Talifero's latest project includes designing and crafting a line of jewelry using the jade that he has collected. Another long time fascination of Talifero's has been with carving walking sticks. As he only carves two a year they are now prized amongst collectors of power objects.

Talifero brings to African-American art a heightened sense of aesthetics and an environmental awareness featuring the Black man and woman in nature and in under-represented historical moments as in his "Moors of Venice" and "Women of Letters" collections. He is a true fine artist who is able to convey a highly personal message through his art. For more information please contact The House of Talifero at info@indigoimpressions.com