I am a painter who works from real life, or at least from the feeling of it. I am most interested in color, atmosphere, and how things sit next to each other in a frame. I paint mostly in oil, with more recent pieces in acrylic.

A lot of my work comes from memories formed in early life: the way a room felt in late afternoon, a parking lot at dusk, a familiar corner that suddenly looks strange. I am drawn to quiet, ordinary scenes that carry more emotion than they seem to at first glance. I am less concerned with perfect accuracy than with mood, presence, and that small shift in the air when something matters.

I earned my BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 1993. In my career I’ve worked as a national CPG brand manager and marketing director. This has trained my eye for structure and composition—how an image holds together, how it leads the eye. Now I use that same discipline in a different way: not to deliver a message, but to make room for feeling.