From my earliest memories, I have found joy as well as a place to release sorrow in the practice of art making.
I grew up at a time when the arts were considered integral to education, and the public high school I attended offered a panoply of art classes. I took all of them. All my mentors were art teachers.
Art school was a natural next step. I attended Parsons School of Design, majored in communication design, and spent a year studying art and architecture in Paris. After completing a BFA, I worked in a variety of advertising agencies and product development houses in New York City before landing at The Gap/Banana Republic where I designed and illustrated graphics for t-shirts and other products.
After more than a decade, I left New York for Denver Colorado, a place where I had spent the early years of my childhood. Through a series of lucky events, I was accepted to a year-long intensive program of study with Quang Ho at the Art Student’s League with a small cadre of other artists. Shortly after, I moved to California and was unable to paint seriously for more than 20 years. Instead, I worked in environmental and public land advocacy.
In 2023, I returned to focus exclusively on making art. I paint mostly landscapes, ever working to simplify and organize a scene to convey its essence, while hoping to convey emotion, expression, and self. The more I paint, the more I learn. And every piece seems miles away from the one before.
I love being outside. I love the natural world. Spending time immersed in it is essential to my well-being. I hope to share some of my sense of place and wonder as well as the critical need to preserve wild spaces–no just for its own sake, but for all of ours as well.
In May of 2025, I accepted an invitation to join the Oak Group. Respected as one of the country’s first artists’ collectives to use landscape painting as a means to promote conservationist causes, this wildly respected group has been preserving lands on California’s Central Coast for wildlife, recreation, ranching, and/or farming for forty years. I am deeply honored to now find myself among its members that I have admired for years.
When I’m not painting, I hike and spend time with my 3 dogs at our rural home near Santa Barbara, California.
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