I grew up in Dallas.

BS East Texas State University, Commerce, TX
(Graphic Arts Major with Charles McGough, Carl Coker, and Dr. Paul Kelpe)

MLS Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

After graduation from East Texas State, I had the choice of working fulltime as a graphic artist with an advertising firm in Dallas or teaching in Europe. I chose Europe. This was the beginning of many years of working with great students in various locations in Germany and wonderful random adventures in Europe. Throughout this time, I had the opportunity to experience grand art on a daily basis, not only the world of artists, but also a total environment that values and supports artists and the arts in every form. I found art everywhere and it was very seductive.

However, it wasn't until wandering through the streets of Venice and stumbling by chance upon the Rothko Museum, that I actually felt color for the first time. I realized that a work, whether abstract or a realistic reflection of an artist's vision, can have the power to make an impression in the blink of an eye - and that image can linger, speaking forcefully to the emotion as well as to the intellect.

After years of chasing the dime and returning to Dallas in 2000, I decided it was time to continue my probing of color as an implied form, creating work that has intensity while leaving an after thought on the eye.

Graphic Work: Joske's of Texas, San Antonio, Texas Library Association, Irving Public Library

Individual & Group Shows Europe: Baumholder, Karlsruhe and New Ulm, Germany

Group Shows Dallas: Raymond Stark, Jannette Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar, 'New Texas Talent 2005' Craighead-Green Gallery