Gallery
Paintings, drawings, and visual experiments across oils, acrylics, charcoal and digital. Work made for the pleasure of making it.
I've enjoyed drawing and painting since first grade, but it was a 10th-grade art class that revealed a real knack for observation and color. After sporadic attempts through college, I didn't paint seriously until 2008 when, after a long hiatus, I picked up oils again — starting with Alaskan Birch. Around that time I began volunteering as an illustrator for the Sierra Club Silicon Valley newsletter, which gave me deadlines and excuses to paint. The California Mountain Lion, Dolphin, and Clair Tappan Lodge came out of that.
More recently I've been experimenting with digital mixed media — sketching on an iPad in Procreate, printing to canvas, then layering oils and acrylics on top. "Pink Morning in Yosemite" (2021, 24″×36″) was one such project. My Spring 2024 paintings of California Superbloom and Chicago Waterfront Twilight reflect a newer interest in Impressionism.