Nature has always been a hot-bed of inspiration.

My home is just north of San Francisco, CA. The temperate climate provides an evergreen backdrop of continual growth. Here I investigate the natural world through making paintings on Douglas fir and bamboo canvases. My interests are varied; from the minute details of a flower’s anatomy to the big picture concerns of disappearing habitat, the road map to wild places in the human unconscious.

I have a B.F.A. in Photography & Painting through the Maryland Institute of Art with further coursework in Biological Illustration at U.C. Berkeley. Fine art emphasizes the expressive, subjective perspective. The purpose of Biological Illustration is to objectively render a flower, an eye of a fish, bone of a rat- just the facts. There is an interesting tension in working between these two worlds.