BIOGRAPHY

Born 1979 into a family of artists, I grew up in Philadelphia and a remote island in Maine.  I have been a prolific oil painter my entire life.  Figure Drawing classes began for me when I was 16 years old at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia.  I received my BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2001) and completed their European Honors Program in Rome.  I also studied at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.  Right after art school I landed in Durango, Colorado for a job with a hotshot wildland firefighting crew, was fired, met my partner, started a family and restarted my art career.

 

I love to exhibit my artwork in a local hobbit home I designed and had built with my partner; the two story earth-bermed structure houses site specific paintings and figurative oil paintings completed throughout my life.  My hobbit "gallery" is open to all as a short term rental in Crestone, Colorado.  I also have shown in galleries in Santa Fe, Durango, and Oaxaca, México.  I  started and facilitated figure drawing groups in Durango, Colorado and now Crestone.  I created three large self portrait oil paintings commissioned for book covers by an art collector and author; the published trilogy spanned 2021-2025. 

I currently live and paint in Crestone, Colorado, a Dark Sky Community.