BIOGRAPHY

Born 1979 into a family of artists, I grew up in Philadelphia and a remote island in Maine.  Figure Drawing classes began for me when I was 16 years old at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. I received my BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2001).  and completed their European Honors Program in Rome.  I also studied at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.  Right after art school I landed in Durango, Colorado for a job with a hotshot wildland firefighting crew, was quickly fired, met my partner, started a family and restarted my art career.

 

I exhibit my artwork mostly in forests and a local hobbit home I designed and had built with my partner; and have shown in galleries in Santa Fe, Durango, and Oaxaca, México.  I have started and facilitated figure drawing groups for several years in Durango and now Crestone.  I created three large self portrait oil paintings commissioned for book covers by a collector and author; the published trilogy spanned 2021-2025. 

I currently live and paint in Crestone, Colorado, a Dark Sky Community.