For nearly 30 years, I've carried a paint box and camera while traveling, looking to create images that tell stories. I have a bit of a "checkered" past, starting my college career as a singer and vocal music major and then completing a degree in painting and drawing. From there I went on to study organic chemistry at a time that I was also showing paintings in local Colorado galleries. That intersection between art and science opened an array of exhilarating opportunities in the arts, eventually allowing me to serve as North American marketing director for Winsor + Newton and Liquitex, two of the leading brands in artist’s products. That's when I began carrying my paint box through Europe, always looking for a free afternoon to paint in London or Paris.
In 2006, I became publisher for The Artist's Magazine in Cincinnati and then, in 2008, for American Artist Magazine in New York. That's also about the time that I stopped painting. Why? Because, after two decades of working with the mechanical and technical qualities of paints and painting, my own painting process became too much like work. That changed recently with death of my mother. With her passing came an urgent desire to make good use of the time that I have left. Most important, I want my children to see the grace and spirit that comes through the act of creation - to understand that there is magic and exquisite beauty in all things around us.
Thank you for the honor of viewing this work. I haven't shown my art in nearly 25 years, but it makes sense to do so here. Because, from the earliest time that I began making art or doing science, I've had an abiding sense that the act of creation - whether it be music or science or business or writing or making images with paint or a camera - is merely a conduit through which comes something much larger than ourselves. It is the most humbling and deeply spiritual process that I know.
