About Me

I’ve been interested in art since I was a small child doodling on paper. I used to paint watercolor paintings as a boy and would go door to door around my neighborhood trying to sell them to my neighbors.

As I grew, I studied art at school from junior high through high school, drawing and painting in acrylics, then had to put any notions of an art career aside as I found myself immersed in the workforce, pouring and finishing concrete for the first ten years of my adult life, where the most creative thing I ever did was make a winding sidewalk.

I continued to draw through the following decade, even as the Recession and Covid-19 pandemic forced me to pursue various occupations from aerospace machine shop manufacturing to law firm office work.

During the pandemic in 2020, I decided I needed to take the step to finally have the art career I’d always dreamed of, and at the beginning of 2021, I began to paint in oils with a focus on realism, and then moved to abstract expressionism in oils, then acrylics, and a bit of surrealism.

I continually research painting techniques and continue my art education online from various artists and art teachers from around the world who offer their knowledge. I plan to further my art knowledge and skill by working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree.

My work has been showcased online throughout Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and my 48” x 48” oil painting “Constructing The Dyson Sphere” was included on the cover of Larker, a New York City-based art magazine celebrating the work and accomplishments of bi individuals around the world.

I live with my partner in Gilbert, AZ, where a corner in our home is my studio.

Artist Statement

Art is about representing life, whether that living thing is animated or inanimate; or even a concept, a legend, an interest. Everything in existence has a story; something to say. I want everything, that wants to be heard, to be heard through art.

I paint in bright colors and broad lines. I use colors that appeal to me that aren’t often commonly seen on people’s walls or in galleries, in the amounts I lay on canvas. I like to challenge the notion that only certain colors can be attractive together.

My paintings have a life of their own; they are their own entities, in a sense. Sometimes, I start out with a subject in mind that I feel has not been represented enough in the abstract art world, like astronomy, hominins, or xenoarchaeology. Other times, I let the most vocal impression guide me with my brushes to tell their story.

My photography is more about what people don’t know about Arizona, mainly the areas in and around the city of Phoenix. Having grown up in the Sonoran desert, I’d like to showcase it and other deserts and forests in Arizona in a way that people wouldn’t expect. There’s lots of beauty here that I’d like the rest of the world to be able to appreciate as much as I do myself. 

But my photography is also about things that interest me that maybe other people don’t see. So, I’d like others to pleasantly be made aware of them via my photographic art. And, of course, it’s about those bright colors.