About

There’s a place, a moment, a space in time where our experiences, training, passion, and drive come together. It’s where we feel inspired and focused confirming this is where we truly belong. My creative work takes me to this place.

Through flowing washes of color, gestural brush strokes, and mixed media, I explore images that celebrate the beauty of nature and our diverse world.

I draw inspiration from summertime on the east coast, work by the Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist movements, architecture, fashion, music, and nature. Some of my favorite artists being John Singer Sargent, Gerhard Richter and Helen Frankenthaler.

I grew up on the east coast and I am graduate of Paier College of Art, Hamden, Connecticut. While at Paier I was fortunate to study under Yale professor and former MFAA officer (Monuments Men!) Deane Keller, Pulitzer Award winner, Rudolph Zallinger, and illustrator, Howard Munce, who along with many other talented professors, led a rigorous traditional fine arts curriculum including a unique emphasis on trompe l’ oeil painting.

Upon graduating from Paier College of Art, I moved to Kansas City to begin a corporate creative career where I gained valuable experience serving as an artist, studio manager, and creative director. I have now returned to painting, a creative coming home of sorts for me.

My early paintings feature realism influenced by my traditional artistic training. Now, curiosity and perhaps a little restlesness drives me to explore. I am excited by the challenge of new techniques, color impact, and simplified shapes inspired by the human form and nature.

While my creative journey follows an ever-changing path that reflects the push and pull of realism and abstraction, I remain steadfast in my passion to celebrate the beauty of nature and our diverse world through my paintings.