Artist Statement

A great work of art engages me visually, emotionally, and intellectually no matter how often I look at it.  My favorite artists manage to achieve this ideal fairly often. My objective as I grow and explore is to find ways do the same.  

I’m doing a mix of abstract expressionist work, cityscapes, landscapes, portraits and some other stuff. I seem to include a lot of buildings in my pieces.

I like to work primarily in oil and acrylic paint but sometimes rely on a variety of other materials, especially wood, metal, textures and acrylic to enrich the story I’m trying to tell.

Bio

My love of artistic creation has been lifelong.  It has been one of my greatest joys for as long as I can remember to go to museums and galleries and look at great works of art.  I think of them as the visual expression of the artist’s genius and I love to get a glimpse of both their thought process and the skill used to bring it to life.  This is both euphoric and humbling, and it’s one of the times I feel most alive.

Working as a project manager in the building industry for over 30 years has exposed me to some brilliant design work by world class architects, interior designers, landscape architects and others.  And my work immersed me in logistics and the assembly process for complex buildings and other structures. This design and engineering mindset certainly informs my approach to art as well as the subject matter I address.

I was in my early fifties when I returned to school to study art intensively, especially painting.  For the next six years, I had the extreme good fortune to be trained and mentored by Heidi Brueckner, an extraordinary talent and profoundly impactful teacher.  If you like my work, she deserves a lot of the credit.

After relocating to Fort Collins, Colorado in 2018, I began working in a rented studio space for the first time.  The discipline this encourages as well as the inspiration I get from a community of artists gives me a great deal of creative energy.