I began painting and exhibiting my artwork in my early teens, inspired by the wide-open landscapes of the high plains of the Texas Panhandle where I grew up and the nearby mountains of Northern New Mexico.
After attending Arizona State University on an art scholarship, I ultimately earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, with additional post-graduate studies there and at the University of North Texas.
Eventually I moved to Marfa, Texas and lived there for 20 years before relocating to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I now reside.
My work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and is represented by Rule Gallery (Marfa and Denver) and G2 Gallery (Santa Fe).
About the Work
My diverse series of works all feature common elements: a love of color; obsessive, repetitive processes; and an intention for the works to be personal and relatable, creating moods such as joy or uneasiness.
Paintings in my Scene series are visual psychodramas – studies in the emotive effects of color and ambiguous spaces.
The geometric abstractions of my Color series are pure expressions of my love of color. The flat surfaces of the hardedge acrylic paintings call attention to the relations of color and shapes to one another.
In the oil paintings, each large, dynamic shape is composed of thousands of obsessively applied small brushstrokes that give the works a hand-made quality, making them personal and evocative on an emotional level.
My Garden series depicts gardens as places of refuge, helping us forget about the chaos and misery caused by human beings’ baser qualities. Doing these paintings enhances my experience of the garden, enabling a deeper appreciation of the beauty that can result when we work with nature to cultivate harmony.
In the Table series, my kitchen table is a blank canvas that graphically shows how everything changes, moment-to-moment, day-to-day.
