A Brief Bio
I was born in Eugene, Oregon, grew up in Kansas City and in San Antonio. I recently lived in Taos, New Mexico, and now make my home in Portland, Oregon, where I create and teach art. I have a second career creating web designs for artists and creative markets.

Artist's Statement
I think of creating art as a "dreaming meditation". My interests in archetypal psychology, metaphysics, the natural sciences, and art history are also apparent in my works.

My explorations of painting began with oils on canvas, expanding to painting on panels, then carved wood, I now paint most frequently on panels or on plexiglass, stacked in a shadow-box frame. I tend to work in a manner of free-association, or sometimes from a collage or drawing... though everything changes once the painting begins. The best paintings, for me, are always those that create themselves.