My paintings and installations start with my vision to see what I have not seen yet, so that another person may see what I see. An affair with abstraction has evolved to afford me a visual vocabulary unbound by narrative or depiction. I try to be fluent with the fundamental elements of my art: scale, pattern, color, and texture set by the touch of my hand. I am committed to putting color on canvas in whatever manner it takes.
My renewed Western sensibility and awareness of its unique iconography inspire new art with quiet tension embedded in the colorful adjacencies. This place is a determinative element in this work.
My artistic journey has evolved over decades. It is why I go to the studio: to find out what’s next. To see what has yet to be seen.
Art gave me a path. Conflicted during the discordant era of the 60s and 70s, opportunities to learn about and make art truly were gifts. Art gave me authenticity. The prospect that it could change my life changed my life. After college, as a young, venturesome cowboy, the West gave me optimism.
Years and many paintings later, while as a professional advisor to luxury brands, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations in markets for and focused on design worldwide, I returned to the West from New York City to Livingston, Montana, to learn again from the West; to evolve as an artist and rise or fall by braving perils and finding discoveries specific to myself. There is a biography in this work. Living in the West, seeing bigger and evolving as an artist.
Living in and journeying around the Mountain West and Great Plains reveals a subtle Western iconography that resonates if one knows where to look for it. Out here, I go looking for it. For me, place is a determinant in creative output. It matters, too, because what one sees is where one is.
I now live in Bozeman near my son and his family. My studio is in a historic building in downtown Livingston. When not in the studio, I am on horses, reading, and endlessly seeing.
