About Me
I like to make things that make my heart sing. When I look at an object, hear a song, or read a verse, I want to feel a resonance with it in my chest. So that's what I try to make.
The drawings are made for intimate spaces. They are reminders. Reminders of someone/something loved; that the world can be/will be a better place, and that they can be happier in it. This laborious drawing process invites concentration and solitude for me and the viewer. The "Tool" drawings are a celebration of texture, patina and lovely old beat up junk. The beauty of the beat up - the elevation of the old - the rebirth of refuse.
The paintings are where I can go a little wild with free-flowing color, impromptu composition and asseblage. I get the paint and power tools and just have at it until I'm happy and I think that painting will make someone else happy.
Mostly I want to make things that bring joy and that people love to live with.
My Other Work
Petable Portraits Realistic pet portraits in pencil, charcoal, colored pencil or acrylic paint.
2015 Events
December 2015 - I'll be part of a 4 artist exhibit at the Art Center Manatee in Bradenton, FL
September 2015 - 14th Annual Wildlife & Domestic Animal Juried Competition
My pet portrait of Jester and Booh was accepted into this show
July 2015 - IAA Members Juried Show Winners
Nature Strong recieved the Award of Excellence
April 19, 2015 - 30th Texas and Neighbors Regional Exhibition Reception & Awards, reception and awards on April 19th, 2015
Wrench No. 10 was accepted in to this show.
March 21, 2015, Four paintings accepted into Revolutionary Walls 2, Misfit Gallery, Bishop Arts District, Dallas, TX
March 7-8, 2015 - Funky Finds, Fort Worth, TX
January 27, 2015 - Artopia, Fair Park, Dallas, TX