I was born in the middle of the "baby boom" in a small Nebraska town and now live in the hills of Hollywood, California. My development as an artist began in boyhood, watching my maternal grandmother create songbirds and landscapes with oil paint and canvas. The enchantment of creation has been a lifelong passion in many arenas.
My art education began around the age of ten in the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska. I fell under the spell of genius work from Milton Avery, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko and Constantin Brancusi. Many others have followed to now include Agnes Martin, Josef Albers, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt.
My professional career has focused upon creative project management in the disciplines of graphic design, advertising production, corporate communications and residential architecture.
The abstract watercolor field paintings began (after years devoted to realism) when I was overwhelmed by the transformative experience of the LACMA retrospective on Agnes Martin in 2016.
The bronze sculptures literally "grew" out of endless hours meticulously tending my garden . . . which, I discovered, began to meticulously tend me in response.
B.S. University of Nebraska and Southern Illinois University
M.F.A. University of Virginia