About me and my work
I muse, therefore I am. My work is concerned with the human condition: identity, magic, spirituality, desire, loss, ennui, virtue, innocence, humor, etc. I try to address these in ways that are both elemental and sophisticated.
My portraits aim to be more than just likenesses of people; they are expressions of universal and sometimes ineffable emotions. Likewise, my landscapes intend to symbolize feelings, as much as the literal time-spaces that inspire them. Bees might symbolize of ways of “bee-ing.” Flowers just ARE.
I enjoy painting because it’s a sensual symphony involving color, intellect, the “feel” of the materials, the joy of experimentation, and deliberate physical action, all of which result in something beautiful. It’s also important to me to be part of an old-world tradition.
At age 22 I migrated from my native Atlanta, Georgia to beautiful Western Massachusetts, where I farmed for a few years before putting myself through art school. A few years later, in pursuit of work that would better support my art (while also becoming a new medium for it), I took some evening courses, and ventured into a career in web design.
I work in a great studio space at One Cottage Street, a nineteenth-century textile factory building complex that has been repurposed to house Riverside Industries, as well as many artists’ studios.
