My Story
Most of the work on this website was painted outdoors from local mountain overlooks and in the Tennessee River Gorge; it tells a story that began in March 2020, as the pandemic arrived, when I stepped out on a windblown, tilting ledge for just a glimpse of relief.
Before moving to Tennessee in 2016, I was an art teacher and a gallery director in Lawrence, Kansas. There, I received instruction in painting and art history at the University of Kansas (BFA). I also received a year of graduate training in painting at the studio of Richard Serrin in Florence, Italy.
Plein air painters of the past and modern painters who blend realism with color field painting, like Wolf Kahn and Fairfield Porter, inspire me. Like them, I explore the visible world by taking risks with color.
I’ve had six solo exhibitions of my paintings, and my first exhibition in Tennessee was in the fall of 2021.