Education

B.F.A at the Art Institute of Chicago

A.A.S. Mechanical Design St. Paul College

Exhibitions

1999 Marc Rubin Gallery 

2000 High Risk Gallery

   2002 St. Paul Art Crawl

2006 Frank Stone Gallery

2007 Studiopolis - Green.

Ideas

The ideas in my work have been supplied by my love of plants and nature. I paint along other themes, but nature has been a constant theme for me since high school. Once I had moved into my own apartment in college, I started to collect plants and I started to look towards nature more for patterns and beauty. It has become the dominant theme in my work. I have bought many books on plants, seashells, insects and landscapes. As I started collecting more plants I was increasingly drawn and pleased by the colors, textures and patterns in nature. I began to be just as interested in looking at a jellyfish as I was in looking at a beautiful painting. My attraction to natures patterns has not stopped for me and it has become the longest obsession besides art I have had in my life. I eventually decided that I would dedicate my work to the appreciation of nature.