About Me

As both an Artist and Architect, I am most challenged and fulfilled when I am creating.

After retiring from a career as an Architect for the Washington State Department of Transportation, my wife and I moved to the west coast of California, in Santa Cruz County. Since living here, I've become particularly interested in painting the intersection of land and sea. Our California State Parks system provides me with an extraordinary opportunity to access our amazingly beautiful coast! 

My artistic style could generally be described as impressionistic and can be characterized by broken brush work, palette knife and impasto applications of paint. For inspiration, I draw on the American Impressionists, especially the prolific artist Childe Hassam, and many of the European Impressionists from the turn of the 20th century.

What motivates and compels me to paint the beauty that I see, can best be described in this apt quote from C.S. Lewis: "We do not want merely to see beauty...We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bath in it, to become part of it."

I hope you enjoy my artwork!