I grew up in a military family, so it was a typical life of living in several places and attending a dozen schools. I was involved with the visual arts since childhood making 8mm films and drawing comic strips. As I got older my drawings matured and were published by local media and eventually it took me on to receive a fine arts degree from the University of Arizona,where I studied under James G. Davis, Wayne Enstice and Jim Wade. After graduation I relocated to Germany and was admitted into the Kunstverien Stuttgart, the local arts association, where I created architectural pen and ink drawings. After returning to the U.S., I was introduced to the airbrush while working in an art store in Washington D.C. which became my main tool for paint applications.

I feel my pieces involve more engineering and differing skill sets than traditional brush painting because airbrush technique requires the manufacture of stencils and different approaches to color mixing. In all a very labor intensive process but results in a beautiful blend of colors and textures.

My formal training introduced me to the concepts of Surrealism and the color theories of Fauvism which I’ve embraced as the foundation of my work. If I had to classify the results of my experiments to reach that state, I would call them abstract surrealist paintings.