Back in 2001, I took a month-long artist’s retreat deep in the woods of British Columbia living in a tent on a mountainside with no electricity or running water.  I intended to focus on photography which had been a passion of mine for at least a decade, but my camera broke on the first day there.  What to do... I purchased some acrylics from the on-site "store" (a woodshed stocked with art supplies) and spent my days in this primitive paradise painting on found wood.  I haven't stopped since.

Drawing on my deep appreciation for the natural world, my work is very much process-driven, with color at the forefront. Most of my paintings these days incorporate hot or cold wax, both of which allow for spontaneous mark making and rich textures, whether it be by employing a torch to fuse my encaustic (hot wax) pieces, or using rubber scrapers to apply/remove oil paint mixed with cold wax medium.

The result is work that merges intuition, imagination, and technical control into something distinctly my own.

I have maintained a studio in the nationally acclaimed SoWa Art and Design District in Boston’s South End since 2009 and belong to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Corporate Art Loan Program. Two painting of mine recently hung in the U.S. Embassy in Coton, Benin. I am represented by AMZehnder Gallery on Cape Cod, as well as Boston-based Galaray House and am thrilled to have my work in both local and international collections.

Oh…and when I am not painting, I am a high school math teacher :)