Roller Wilson is a resident of Fayetteville, AR. He lives there with his wife Kathleen and a poodle named Betty Tarantula Ratina Wilson. Fayetteville has been Rollers refuge since he taught at the University of Arkansas in the late 1960s.

The more you seek to know the answers, the more you realize how much you don't know, Roller says. As a result, you have to operate blindly on faith. More than anything, my work deals with that pointlessness. It takes all the arrogance out of everything you do when you know that God is so much bigger than you are. And yet everything you are and do and see is filled with God: the trees, the asphalt, and the people fighting over Aqua Net at Wal-Mart. That sounds silly, but silliness is just as important as love, just as important as tragedy. You can make a profound intellectual statement just by basing your efforts on silliness.

Donald Roller Wilson has paintings hanging in the collections of Jack Nicholson, Steve Martin, Dan Ackroyd, Robin Williams, Holly Solomon, Meryl Streep, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Carrie Fisher wrote that "his paintings tell stories with pictures and he tells the stories through the innocence of images created from a seemingly pointless combination of various dressed up animals, objects - even vegetables - assembled for just one last family portrait. The surface effect is whimsy."

Choose from Jimmy the chimp, Naughty Judy, Kathleen the cat, Helen- Miss Dog America and Naughty Betty. Buy one or collect all five for a conversation piece in your home.