My portfolio showcases various series of paintings created throughout my career. My work tends to investigate our relationship with the natural world, with its creatures, with each other, and with ourselves. I make social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a titch of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a pinch of bird droppings. See my contact information below and get in touch if you have any questions or if you’re interested in purchasing a painting or commissioning one.
We Want Our View and Eat It Too
Walking the Cranes Interview with a Carnivore Afternoon Instructions Deer Dreams Sleep in a Wigwam Daily Instructions Have Cape Will Conquer Prophetic What I Did on Summer Vacation Paparazzi Street Fishing So Free Me and My RV Hoola Hoopin Western Theme Park RVNV Please Don’t Harass the Humans Clean It Up Into the Pink The Hive Wilderness Adventure We Want Our View Dancing Purple Bears Parking Lot Paddling Bison Traffic Jam RV Park Speed Bump The Screen Roadside Attractions Seasonal Migration Summer Camp
Artist’s statement: I Want My View and Eat It Too explores how we as tourists interact with the natural world and what we expect when we visit National Parks and other beautiful places. These paintings investigate our relationship with the natural landscape, with its wild creatures, and with preserved historic places while questioning our ideas concerning fair use and conservation.
Domesticates
Birth Order Family Management Running of the Errands Sisters Red Shoes United Three Boy’s Club Thirty Years Bound Girl’s Club Power Invisible Glued and Tattooed Haunted by Bunnies Almost Jaded Kid’s Club
Artist’s statement: Domesticates explores the influence of relationships, especially the close, domestic bonds of family and friends where the colors and patterns of our daily existence imprint themselves onto us, forming the person we become, the roles we play, and how we view the world.
Exposing the Sneaky Marmot
She Wondered How Long the Sneaky Marmot Would Make Her Keep This Up Sneaky Marmots Start Early The Sneaky Marmot Had Convinced Her that the World Was Like a Beach Ball Lining up the Sneaky Marmots She Believed That Her Backside Was Her Best Asset Against Her Will, She Was Beginning to Resemble the Sneaky Marmot By All Appearances, He Had All His Sneaky Marmots in a Row She Assumed She Was Prettier When She Pointed Her Toes He Did Not Have the Power to Resist the Polka Dots He was the Only One Who Couldn’t See that He’d Been Tricked by the Sneaky Marmot They Mistakenly Believed that the Sneaky Marmot Was Going Away Occasionally, The Sneaky Marmot Took Her for a Ride Somebody Has to Do It She Imagined that Supersonic Bicycle Speed & a Pretty Dress Were All a Girl Really Needed Marmot Extraction He Had Under Dressed for the Occasion and the Sneaky Marmot Was to Blame He Believed that He Could Convince the Marmot by Using His Finely Honed Skills of Logic and Argumentation A Few of Them Were About to Discover that the Sneaky Marmot Had Led Them All Astray
Artist’s statement: Sometimes the beliefs we hold about the world or about ourselves don’t serve us well. False or misleading perceptions can, at best, lead us into harmless folly, or at worst, cause others and ourselves a lifetime of misery and heartache. Exposing the Sneaky Marmot investigates many versions of self-deception. The presence of a trickster marmot throughout the series embodies the tendency to be misled by our perceptions and beliefs, many of which have long generational ties that are passed along like family heirlooms. These mindsets are formed in childhood and carried into adulthood where they often function below our conscious awareness. I reference old photographs to allude to the temporal persistence of long-lasting familial mindsets and use the landscape at a setting to represent the wild terrain of our own unconscious thoughts and drives. These paintings are twisted versions of grown-up dramas that are humorous on the surface but sometimes dark and insidious underneath with far-reaching consequences.