Art is a source of pleasure, calm, introspection, and energy. Unlike other forms of entertainment or decoration, it asks for input from you, the viewer, while giving back that which you generate.As an artist I believe that the more I put into a painting, whether figuratively - thought, intent, and consideration, or literally - marks, marks and more marks, the more there is for you to discover.
I have been making art since I could drag a pencil across paper, a box of which - scrap paper - was kept in a corner of my parents’ kitchen. Dinosaurs turned into R2-D2 into Ridley Scott’s Alien before I eventually settled on painting. My studies led me to begin painting in an abstract expressionist style on joint compound, an economical version of fresco. I have exhibited around my hometown of Portland Oregon and sometimes elsewhere since 1992.