Educated at the Ringling School of Art and Design, McKissick's paintings have traveled the globe, with selected exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Honolulu, South Africa and St. Thomas, USVI. Special collections can be found at Georgia Pacific in Atlanta, AT&T in Jacksonville, The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Umbro International in England and Phillip Morris in New York City.

At first glance, McKissick's lively impressionistic paintings of people, animals and landscapes appear effortlessly spontaneous, as though conceived and executed in an afternoon. They are elegantly and precisely drawn images with composition, color and atmosphere deliberately calculated to evoke a specific emotional response. The viewer is pulled into the painting.

Whether McKissick is painting a portrait, landscape or a figure, his confident brushstrokes and sense of mood and place are powerful statements of the artist's vision