I couldn't decide how best to describe myself or my art. The difficulty I had was whether I should present myself as being a very serious, complex artist with some unique insight, understanding or higher pursuit or simply as someone just doing what they love to do and let it go at that. After considerable discussion and debate I've decided that I'm much more comfortable with the latter and in the process just letting my art speak for itself.

However, having said that I do believe that our art says as much about where we've been, who we are and where we are going as it does about that which we create. Today my art is mostly about people who in other ways would go through life unnoticed. They've not traveled in space. They've not made a movie. They've not hit a game winning home run. At least I don't think so. I don't know if they have families. I don't know who their friends are. I don't know what they do for a living. Or even if they work at all. I don't need to know. I have no knowledge of them except through what I imagine their lives to be - by the way they look or dress or move. I'm comfortable imagining. That way I'm free to be creative and inventive. Free to say something about them in unexpected ways. Free to be casual about their environment. Free to open a window into their lives that I've created.

Therefore, what you will find here are simply works of art that represent what I love to do . . . observing and recording the people, events and things around me. It's no more complicated than that.

Art Influence
John Singer Sargent. Edgar Degas. Thomas Eakins. Winslow Homer.

Personal Influence
More than anyone else my wife has made the biggest impact on my art. She has been immensely supportive of my pursuit as well as accurately critical when it was necessary. I am extremely grateful for her insight and inspiration.

Education
BA Communications - Oakland University, Rochester MI