My website represents some intensive years of playing catch up with my art. That is because I started life out as an attorney. (ugh) Three years into practicing in New York I saw the art light and realized that it is what I needed to follow. I headed south and enrolled at the University of Georgia. Two years later I had my MFA. Eventually I was hired at Kennesaw State Univirsity where I am now a full professor of painting and drawing (KSU has 22,000 students and is located just north of Atlanta).

My work has been shown nationally in exhibitions ranging from The Lever House in New York, Kornye Gallery in Fort Worth, and various galleries in Atlanta. I am currently represented by an awesome ATLANTA gallery, Mason-Murer Fine Arts Gallery. The Morris Museum has recently acquired one of my works.

My works has been featured on the cover of International Artists Magazine (Feb/Mar 08). American Artist Magazine (Apr 08) wrote a feature article about me. The Artist's Magazine (Mar 09) selected me as its online artist of the month.

The people and places I paint are dictated to me by a guiding personal philosophy. I see life as incredibly precious and fleeting, and through my art, I can freeze life in its tracks.

The technique I use is traditional realism, not photo-realism. I never project and imge and then trace. The image moves from my eye to my hand. My style reflects that level of focus at which I feel most comfortable: clean, unambiguous, and light-filled.

The world is full of a lot of awfulness today. It is also filled with beauty. That is what I choose to focus on. I think of my art as a cup-of-Joe for the soul.