From a very early age I recognized that I had an ability to express my ideas, feelings and fantasies artistically. This ability gave me some of the most cherished moments of my early childhood, and set me on a path to make art my life.

 

Born and raised in Arizona as the oldest of three boys, I became an Air Force brat at the age of 7. The next ten years were spent moving from one coast to another and back again.  After high school I settled in California, where I received formal training in art from the Santa Barbara Community College and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). In 1995 I met my future wife in San Francisco and followed her to the wine country of Sonoma County. Up to that point my artistic focus had been a bit haphazard, but the landscape of the Sonoma hills and coast took root in my imagination and eventually I began to paint more and more landscapes.  In a very short time I began to develop a name for myself as a landscape painter and had some initial success. The desire for finding a healthier environment in which to raise our family led my wife and me to decide to make the 2,725-mile move to Watkinsville, Georgia. Initially the contrast between the rocky California coastal desert and the lush greens of the Southeast was a challenging transition to make, but it didn't take long for the rich, verdant environment to have an affect on my artistic impulses.  

 

Landscape painting epitomizes the creative impulse in one of its purest forms.  Many of my subjects are places that I pass on a daily basis and hardly notice, that is, until something a little bit magical happens and I see it in a new way. In every painting I do, I try to distill the purest reflection of what initially attracted me to the scene. My goal as an artist is to continually work to communicate my reaction to beauty as clearly as my paint and I can come.