About

Since 1984 I have been working in the creative arts field as a graphic artist, an illustrator and a creative director. While working for several different design studios and advertising agencies, my most fulfilling moment of my career was when I risked everything I had and started my own greeting card design studio where I designed, illustrated and published my own lines of work. I established a national fan base of followers (pre-Twitter and Facebook) working primarily with design markers on metallic paper. I called them “marker paintings”. Currently, I have been painting with oils and pigment sticks. Painting with pigment sticks gives me an adrenalin rush. They are immediate, raw, and emotional.

I experience the world by observing how my surroundings are constructed out of multiple layers of colors, shapes, shadows, light and gestures. Everything around me intersects and lives with structure and harmony. Not just visually, but acoustically. I can hear the shapes, the colors, the shadows, and the impressions of gestures. I can hear and feel a smile, a raised eyebrow, a brush of the hair, texture of any kind, even the calmness of a statue, and of course, every brush stroke of color. But when I alter it and dice it up into different perspectives, it reveals stories I’ve never seen, felt or heard before.

Our world is as frightening and hateful as it is beautiful and amazing. I need moments where I can pause away and lose myself into stories that evoke simpler feelings. Like dogs. Dogs pull us away from conflict, hate, arguments, and put us into moments that find common ground. My hope is that at least one person finds different stories and meanings within my paintings, and experience a “pause” from the tumultuous world we are currently in.