Bio

Drawing and painting have always been a part of my life from an early age. In junior high school I won my first cash award in an art show.  My high school art instructor, Ron Leatherwood, inspired me to continue painting and drawing at every opportunity. After graduating from Oklahoma City University with an English degree, I studied the craft of painting for several years with Claude Anderson, a well-known Oklahoma portrait and landscape artist. Between 1987 and 1998 I participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Oklahoma and Texas, notably the first Oklahoma Painting Biennial in 1991.

After relocating to Sonoma County with my wife in 1998 and earning an Environmental Studies degree from Sonoma State University in 2006, I resumed my artistic endeavors with a series of plein air landscapes and coastal scenes of Sonoma County.

My work has been described as having “Vivid hues and luminous light, seasoned with judicious amounts of deftly handled realistic detail [that] transform ‘ordinary places’ into extraordinary places…”

Artist's Statement

Making art using different media, especially oil on panel is what I enjoy most. The Northern California sea coast and the rolling hills of Sonoma and Napa Counties are my main sources of inspiration. I also enjoy painting still life compositions and whimsical drawings of animal  characters.