I've been observing the world from earliest days, cheek against sun-splashed floor, dissolving my molecules into whatever eyes and spirit saw. Words came first, then photography with my Polaroid camera at age 7. Painting came later.

As a very young child, everyday experiences added to an unsettling awareness of life's impermanence and absurdity. I countered that awareness by capturing whatever stopped me in my tracks, beginning a lifelong penchant for framing things via words or colors. The shaped energy reflects back to the viewer. In so doing, howsoever Quixotically, I strive to create work that gives pleasure and that will keep pulsing long after the "me” of me returns to the collective ether again.

As to my practice and what may appear to be an absence of serial pieces ... the 'serial' aspect is there, sublimated into a narrative loosely connected to my life.

In short: I am self-taught; not a slave to trends, and the more I paint, the clearer my vision becomes. Bear with me, and I'll do the same. Contact me for prices and prints. To purchase original paintings, prints, and a selection of greeting cards, visit my

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Visitors are more than welcome to my studio in West Valley City, Utah. Simply message or call to let me know when you’d like to stop by.

A favorite quote about "art" and "success":

"It was not that the world owed him a debt and would eventually be compelled to pay it; but rather that the world would one day receive what he had it in him to give ..."
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, (Mark Roskill, editor, Touchstone, NY, 2008, p. 28)

Image: Early landscape, c. from near where I grew up in Nova Scotia. Even if not quite finished, and even if torn, I still like it.

Désolée de ne pas avoir mon site traduit en d'autres langues. Soyez patients! Avec un peu de temps, j'y arriverai. Cependant, j'éspère que les images vous donnent du plaisir!