I am a traditional artist and writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. I work primarily with acrylics on canvas or canvas paper, some charcoal and graphite specifically with portraiture/drawings. I also use Paintshop Pro to merge digital elements into my paintings and sketches.



I began painting in 2002 after a long hiatus from the visual arts. Almost immediately I felt myself draw to the works of Franz Marc (Particularly Blue Horses that resides at the Walker Art Center), and Georgia O’Keefe. I realized early on that I liked the idea of bio-morphic forms and the gentle suggestive feeling presented in both artists work. As a result I gave up attempting realism and started working purely on the form and emotive aspects of my subjects, in essence attempting to portray the spirit or idea of a piece. As this has been my goal, abstract and impressionistic styles have been the most apt form to describe my work. Alternately, (for an added sense of realism) I also work on faces, and portraiture in graphite and charcoal.



The main subjects of my works have been horses, females, emotional forms and abstract emotive forms. I am primarily drawn to the subject of horses, largely in part that I love the animals, have ridden for a number of years and was born and raised in the midwest. To me the form of the horse presents a multitude of emotions and expressions that I attempt to capture in my art, many of which have had a permanent impact on my life as I've lived and moved through the midwest.