About

I’m a painter and printmaker currently living in Wichita, Kansas.

Mechanical reproduction and repetition (I find great truth in the dictum, “repetition is the foundation of clarity”), have been both the subject of my work and the means by which I produce it. The supports for the paintings reinforce dual interests in commercial processes and their applications for fine art. Currently, I am painting and printing my large works on PVC board for the same reason sign shops use it; its durability, archival qualities, self-supporting nature and it’s optimal surface for printing.

For many years, synthesized images, often in the form of decorative floral patterns employed as a kind of substitute for nature,  have provided both a subject source and a rationale for the exaggerated dimensions of my paintings. I like the references to landscape in the long horizontals and the phenomenological aspect of engaging viewers’ peripheral vision, engulfing them in the ‘reality’ of the painting. I continue to work on that scale and in that format, as well as on smaller, more intimately-sized paintings, pushing the decorative elements of my work into the realm of abstraction.

The roots of these passions for fine and applied arts, can be found in the utopian societies of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Bauhaus have been a tremendous influence on me both for their utopian ideals and for their insistence on the fusion of artist and craftsman. It has always been important to me to produce paintings that are both beautiful and well-crafted.

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