Fine Art Painter, Visual artist, Writer/Author, Sculptor, and Foodie, always on a creative quest.

I started painting flowers and animals when I was five. They were very realistic and the perspective was very good for such a young artist. My first canvas was the thrown out cardboard from my Fathers starched white dress shirts. I remember it so well. The blue on my Hydrangea’s glowed on that cardboard.

I continuously pursued my art and eventually it took me into the more “professional” areas. I studied at Center for Creative Studies, Detroit Michigan and became an automotive designer for General Motors. Those winters are brutal and once I had had enough, I moved to San Diego where my art took a different “professional” turn. I was an interior designer and also owned a graphic printing business. While those are respectable professions it did not feed my creative soul. Painting, sketching, creating, that is where my bliss is found.

I paint my abstracts through intuitive painting, drawing from the energy I am either feeling or that is around me, usually only selecting the basic color palette to start, and morphing from there. I love every color and to see how they interact together is exciting to me. Light, dark, bright or muted, my eye is filled with wonder. I embrace circles and shapes and lines. To see how they relate and communicate is a wonder.

I love color, pattern, texture, graphics and the play between color and shapes. I paint large abstracts full of energy, small pen and ink with watercolors, abstract figurative's and paper sculptures…and, of course, those blue hydrangeas.