This site was created to feature my fine art work from the past year. Click on an image to enlarge or to view a slideshow.

I received a BA in Fine Arts from Indiana University in 1990. I did my graduate work at the University of Cincinnati, earning an MFA degree in painting in 1994. I currently live and work in the mountains of North Carolina.

Chaos into cosmos is the general title of my work as I focus on the mysterious process and act of painting, as it relates to the processes and patterns of life existing in the nature that is within us and the nature that surrounds us. It suggests a connection between the ever-moving cycles of life, and the ever-changing, deeply-layered cycles inherent in the way I work: I begin with  seemingly chaotic layers of paint and other mediums, but as I work the surface, forms emerge and a cosmos of connections is revealed... They are the suns and moons of life along mountainous crossings, it is creation showing me the forms that make sense: branchings and rivers on the earth and inside our bodies, DNA strands of hope intertwining into levels of the universal connectedness that we yearn for.

In my work, I feel myself teetering on an edge of tension between the comfort and orderliness of cosmos versus the unknown, even dangerous territory of chaos. Perhaps chaos is the utter unknown, but is this not what we wake to each day? The search for cosmos is therefore the purpose of all my working.