I was that kid, from Kindergarten on, who was always called upon to draw a pumpkin or Santa Claus for class but I was more interested in the Beatles, cool clothes, cars and girls. I attended the Colorado Institute of Art studying Commercial Art in the mid-70s, but there was golf to play and skiing to do so any artistic endeavors stayed quietly on the back burner. When I moved back to Kansas City in 1988 I had some success with pen and ink illustration for Coca-Cola USA and when more life happened, I decided to actually be an artist and to make my art expression more of a challenge. Though I consider myself 90% self-taught, I studied watercolor for a short time with Tom Nelson, a Kansas City Art Institute instructor, and began painting in 2008.
I now have paintings hanging in private collections from San Francisco to St. Louis and yet I'm still learning; every day I look forward to taking my art to a higher level, and I am, with awards in Plein Air and local art shows and showing my work in local galleries. I don't know where this is going, but I'm not going to stop it.
