A lifelong student of the arts, as a child Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen was given a camera by his grandfather. For decades he took pictures, but only shared his work with family. It was only in recent years that Allen's wife, Lauren, persuaded him that his work was good enough to share with the public.

And on Febraury 19th, it will be. Allen will present his exhibit, Rick Allen: Angels And Icons, at Wentworth Gallery inside the King Of Prussia Mall in southeastern Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, reports John J. Moser of The Morning Call.

The show will include not only photographs, but paintings, mixed media and even jewelry. The items will be for display and purchase, and Allen will be at the event. This event was originally scheduled to coincide with Def Leppard's February 17th concert at Allentown's PPL Center, but that performance, as well as the rest of the band's winter tour, was postponed because of singer Joe Elliott's vocal problems.

"I've always felt that creativity is interchangeable - if you can play the drums, you can probably take a photograph," Allen says in a call from his home in California, where he has lived since 1991. "If you can take a photograph, you can probably, you know, paint to a certain degree. If you can paint, then you can probably do poetry. So not in any specific order, but I do feel as though art is, or expression is, interchangeable."

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