At the early age of 4 or 5, I found creating images to be comfortable and natural. When I was 20, I formally studied art as and undergraduate student at the state university located in my hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.

After 9 years of teaching in a large public high school in the Washington, DC suburbs, I left my post and returned to school full time receiving my MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. It was at MICA that I was introduced and studied with my mentor, Edward Dugmore, a second generation abstract expressionist from New York. In the 1980’s, I exhibited extensively on the East Coast with a one man show at Addison/Ripley Gallery in Washington, DC in 1982 and during that same year I was included in “10+10+10, Washington Painting, 1982,” at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

In 1991, I relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where I continue to paint, draw and take photographs. My drawings are lyrical and are both surrealistic and fantastic. My paintings are firmly abstract expressionistic. They are noted for their intense colors, shapes and textures. These same compositional elements are also found in my photographs many with a strong grounding in the surreal.