About the Artist

                                            I was that kid, from Kindergarten on, who was always called upon to draw a pumpkin or    

                                      Santa Claus for class but I was more interested in the Beatles, cool clothes, cars and girls.

                                      I attended the Colorado Institute of Art studying Commercial Art in the mid-70s, but

                                      there was golf to play and skiing to do so any artistic endeavors stayed quietly on the back

                                      burner. When I moved back to Kansas City in 1988 I had some success with pen and ink

                                      illustration for Coca-Cola USA and when more life happened, I decided to actually be an

                                      artist and to make my art expression more of a challenge. Though I consider myself 90%

                                      self-taught, I studied watercolor for a short time with Tom Nelson, a Kansas City Art

                                      Institute instructor, and began painting in 2008.

                                      I now have paintings hanging in private collections from San Francisco to St. Louis and yet