My artwork is positive and fun. I tell stories with shapes, colors, patterns, and images. Each piece tells a different story, and sometimes many stories, at different times, or all at once. The possibilities for interpretations are limitless—and I like it like that. I want it to be open-ended and not be a specific story that I’m telling, but rather a launchpad for thoughts, dreams, and visions. It’s my intention that each viewer’s take-away is informed by their own personal history and references.  

I want to inspire and uplift the viewer with something that’s good to look at. A positive visual grab, to hook onto, return to, and engage with. Artwork that is a presence, because it embodies a set of thoughts and feelings.
It’s individual to me—the artist, but then it’s equally individual to the viewer who interacts with it.

I’ve been making Art for most of my life, from as far back as I can remember. It’s an inherent process of joy and decision making that comes from deep within my wiring. The artistic process continues to expand and provides me with an honest and beautiful heightened sense of awareness.

There are four disciplines that I rely on, keep coming back to, and have honed my craft at. They are Drawing & Painting—both traditional and digital, Mixed Media Collage, Photography, and Graphic Design. I toggle between them all in a juggled balance of my skill set.

I’ve made my living doing graphic design for over 30 years, and continue to do so. I enjoy creating the message via a composition of typography and images that tells a story.

That sense of balancing a narrative is at the root of my paintings—on paper and canvas, or with pixels. I draw shapes with a crisp line, wrapping curves into precise meetings, choreographing the paths that they take so that a dialogue is achieved, and then the paint/color brings the bones to life.

 I love combining all sorts of elements into mixed media collages. Working with found 2D pieces, and also creating patterns on paper, or drawing and painting on the collages—that’s how I mix it all together. I’m interested in making the pieces play off of one another and in introducing unique juxtapositions.

Photography is about seeing and capturing, and I have a bit of an addiction to it. I take joy in recording, seizing  and scooping up what I want to save, freeze, and refer to later. The photos weave the fabric of my life into a recorded tale.

I'm passionate about making what we see, and live with, visually inspiring. I believe that visual pleasure works in a healing way and that the things that we look at in our daily environment feed our spirit. There’s a visual click-through happening all the time. You see something, you respond to it, it triggers memories, or emotions, or goals … reminds you of something that you can add on to and move forward with. It’s like that in simple situations, like having fresh flowers on the table, and in more complex situations, when you look at the colors and shapes in a painting and they take you on a journey, tapping into memory, opportunities, and wishes, providing the viewer with a transcendent path from the physical to the spiritual, and creating layers of learning, and ways to process, that wouldn’t haven’t been discovered otherwise.