I am a figurative, narrative painter, draughtsman and muralist. I studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles and received the Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 2005 I was awarded the Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Fund Fellowship in mural painting at the National Academy of Design in New York.

My experience as a public artist whose work deals with diverse cultures, history and connection to communities is deep. I have completed large public projects for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority; for the eminent Lilly Library of Indiana University; for Key West City Hall in Florida; for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University; for the St. Paul Union Depot in Minnesota; for the Piedmont Park Conservancy in Atlanta; for the Helene S. Mills Senior Center of Fulton County; and a series of 24 paintings for the Milken Family Foundation in Santa Monica, California.

My private studio work stresses the evocative over the illustrative. While many of my paintings and watercolors are subjective, I continue to draw directly from nature, as reflected in my sketchbook pages, figure and animal drawings. I believe that while my work is of its own time, it also reflects the history of my craft and great lessons from artists of times past.