About me…

My mother told me my first drawings were of bull dozers and dump trucks when I was three. I was always the kid in class who drew. It was just something I did. I would cover my textbooks with brown paper grocery bags so I could fill them up with doodles throughout the school year. Growing up in the blue ridge mountains of Virginia I spent my after-school days and weekends playing in the woods. Even then the beauty of the forest and the way the light filtered through the trees and sparkled off the creek captured my eye and imagination. A creative life was to be my future.

Fast forward through a 38-year career of graphic design, multimedia, visual journalism, and design consulting…

Painting in oils has always been a passion. Particularly the landscape. Even more so, landscapes that capture that one moment when the light hits the subject just right. It’s there. And then it becomes something else. Being able to depict that moment, whether it is the dawn light hitting the side of a barn, the diffused light on an overcast afternoon spread across a pasture, or the warm glow of golden hour as it filters through the leaves of the forest.  Capturing light in such a way demands understanding color relationships and shapes and putting them together in just the right way to make the viewer want to be there. To feel the warmth of the sun, the chill of the snow, or the sound of the creek as the water travels along its infinite journey to the ocean.

Nature is the ultimate muse.