As
a 1980 graduate of The Ringling School of Art and Design, I have spent the
last twenty-three years creating paintings for magazines, advertisements,
Children's Books, and Fine art commissions of portraits and landscapes.
Several times a year I make school visits to talk with students about how an
illustrator works.
The subject matter of my work ranges from a canoe trip on the Mississippi to Native American History. I spend a great deal of time collecting reference through my local library, the internet, my own extensive collection of books and photos, and sometimes traveling to the location of the story.
Back in the studio, following a process of preliminary sketches and color studies I work out all the problems before painting the finished piece. This discipline was developed from years of working as an Illustrator.
Using light, color and texture, I try to bring the viewer into the painting, so they too can feel the moment in time.
My goal is to tell the story "Without Words".