About Me

I have always felt that art has a way of finding people when they least expect it. Sometimes it's in a gallery, sometimes on a screen, sometimes in the quiet corner of a café, or even in a friend's home. But in that small, fleeting moment of recognition—when something in a painting stirs a feeling, a memory, or a thought—it leaves an imprint that lasts. That's the kind of art I strive to create.

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I'm based in Columbus, Ohio, where I've been painting off and on for forty years. For most of that time, art lived alongside everything else—work, family, the pull of daily life—but as I move toward retirement, I'm finally giving it the time and focus it's always deserved. Watercolor and gouache have become my mediums of choice precisely because they refuse to be tamed: water moves where it wants, pigment pools and blooms in ways you can guide but never fully control, and every painting holds a quiet negotiation between intention and accident. I've grown to love that unpredictability, and I try to meet it with boldness—reaching for color and gesture that doesn't apologize for itself.

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I believe that art has the quiet power to shift the way we see the world, even if only for a heartbeat. It can slow us down, make us look twice, make us feel something we didn't know we were carrying. It can remind us of our shared humanity—the beauty, the melancholy, and the wonder of simply being alive.