The roots of my style stem from my deep appreciation of the outdoors that were planted as I grew up in Southern Utah near many of God's natural wonders. I look forward to autumn when I can harvest the colors and shapes of things that Mother Nature gives to us. Leaves, seeds, pods and trees are a favorite of mine. I love taking something that is ending its life cycle and putting it in one of my paintings. I give it a new life, so to speak. Or rather, extend its old one. I displaced that natural object to finish it's cycle in one of my paintings where it will continue to decompose and disintegrate until one day my painting won't even look the way it started. Someone looking at it will see the painting under the painting.

Professionally, I have over ten years experience in many forms of the art realm including computer graphic arts, photography, and all mediums of painting. I taught classes in many different art forms during my stay in Europe from 1991-1996. I also taught web design and various art classes in the San Francisco area from 1996-1998. I'm known by my photography clients as being willing and able to go to any lengths to create the perfect shot; be it statically artistic in B&W, moving in color, painfully sentimental or catching people unguarded when I think they are at their best. I will always create, because that's who I am. As my life cycle ends, I bet that inside my head, somewhere, I'd be making beautiful and strange dreams to live in.

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