Interdisciplinary Artist / Designer

Artist: this has been the only thing I’ve ever wanted to be since growing up as an only child with my mother and father on a 160-acre farm in southeast Missouri. My imagination was fed by playing in the open fields, rolling in the leaves of the woods, and staring up at the clouds in the sky – safe in my grass house by the barn.

With our family’s move to the city came the opportunities to learn printing and commercial art in high school, fine art, art history, and graphic design in college. After graduation, a move to San Francisco at the birth of Silicon Valley and computer graphics, and then later – to the East Coast to become a part of a vibrant creative community nestled throughout the Poconos of southeast Pennsylvania.

These places and experiences inform my current artistic practice while living in Springfield, Missouri.

Several years ago I discovered and began applying the work of Dr. Lucia Capacchione engaging the non-dominant hand in personal creative expression and self-discovery. As I applied her techniques, I began to see new images, ideas, and ways of creating emerge that felt more genuine and complete than before.

Then in January 2022, I decided to alter my creative practice by making drawings and paintings ONLY using my untrained left hand. This process felt awkward, uncertain, and scary – I was making bolder choices with composition, color and presentation that seemed more childlike, however, I pressed on in this new direction for an entire year to see where it would lead.

The work you see before you is the result of working with the materials using both hands without a preconceived intention of how the final piece of art would look. The resulting imagery is energetic, playful and bounds full speed for the borders of the surface usually ending with a poetic title influenced by nature and all arrived at from my new, exploratory perspective to the work. I encourage you as the viewer to explore and discover different subject matter hiding in plain site in this work – leading you to arrive with your own interpretation and theme, at a different destination.