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Early Interest
My interest in art began early. At age seven I had a drawing of a dog, “with eyes as big as sewer lids”, published in the Denver Post. That same year I won my first award - a pack of Juicy Fruit gum - for a clay sculpture of a cowboy sitting on a fence and twirling his lasso overhead in a school composition. This interest continued throughout my school years. After serving in the U.S. Army, I studied sculpture and painting in college receiving a B.F.A. degree. I continued what I did in college by making constructivist paintings. These were exhibited in many shows. I also screenprinted, art directed, signpainted, illustrated a few books, took two solo bicycle trips across the United States and Canada, and built a three story cabin by hand. My neighbors called this cabin a lodge, I called it a giant sculpture.
Form from Abstraction
For over a decade, I've been painting landscapes full-time. I set the composition for my images by starting from my own photographs and break the scene into small blocks. On the canvas a larger corresponding grid is drawn. This sets the stage for paint application.
A somewhat contemporary impressionist, I work exclusively in fluid acrylics. My technique involves breaking down landforms into abstract bits of vibrant colors. Up close, each swatch of paint on canvas appears haphazard, but from a distance the viewer's eye mixes the colors to form recognizable shapes.
Painting tiny strokes can be tedious, but it is a stable method of building an image. Part of the trick is painting without conscience awareness of a scene but only distributing paint to a flat surface.
These multi-award winning paintings capture the look and feel of the earth's form and nature. My paintings appear in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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