Much is to be discovered in the surrounding natural environment where one finds the whole of life; birth through death and the liminal space between. There is refuge in the symbiosis of forms: waters, plants, trees, rocks, animals. These were my first confidants/ spiritual advisors, that developed my courage, strength, vitality  in making sense of the lovely melancholy of existence. In my art, expression of nature, as the subject, is poetic and never a literal interpretation. The subjects exist within the ambiguity of space or circumstance and occasionally, text. The intention is to evoke an inexpressible longing, memory, power.

I am mainly a painter.  I currently teach drawing and painting at the College of Design, Iowa State University as an Associate Professor. I have a studio in downtown Ames.

My expertise is in encaustic painting which I have been working with since 2001 when I took a workshop with Paula Roland (Santa Fe), and shortly after through R and F Handmade Paints in the Mission District of  SF Bay and then Kingston, New York at the RFHP home base.

I am available to teach small workshops in encaustic painting,  acrylic painting, oil painting, mixed media.