Meet the Artist

I'm a painter and a naturalist. I paint the things that interest me and the things I find beautiful.

I'm endlessly fascinated by the creatures we share this planet with. We take so much of the natural world for granted, even though these animals are out there doing incredible things all day, every day. There's so much beauty around us that we're privileged to coexist with, and if we slow down long enough to watch, it's pretty awe-inspiring.

How these creatures exist, what they look like, and the place they hold in the world are often where a painting begins for me. But the painting usually doesn't end there. Nature, wildlife, memory, personal experience, symbolism, and storytelling all tend to find their way into the work. Sometimes the story is obvious. Sometimes it's sitting quietly underneath the surface.

I've been working as a professional artist for more than 30 years. Along the way, I've worked in fine art, graphic design, photography, and scenic painting.

Before I started working as a scenic artist, I think the largest painting I'd ever made was 18 x 24 inches. Suddenly, I was working with a team under ridiculous time constraints on murals that were 16 x 40 feet or bigger. We worked fast, experimented with everything, and had to figure things out together. When the work came back from an event, we'd photograph it and paint right over it so we could start something new.

Nothing was precious.

That was probably the biggest lesson I took from those years: make the work, learn from it, let it go, and then do it again. Scenic painting gave me a kind of freedom that has stayed with me ever since.

And sometimes I just paint my orange Converse because I think they're fun.

Fun matters to me. If I'm bored making a painting, why would I expect anyone else to give it the time of day?