I’ve been painting for around 15 years; although, I didn’t throw myself into it fully until about seven years ago. I work mainly with acrylics, but I also create mixed media art and drawings from time to time.

I live in Wichita, Kansas. I have a home-based studio and used to have an art gallery in Wichita’s Towne West Mall (closed due to Covid). I’m currently focusing on painting animals in a colorful style that I call visionary impressionism. My visionary impressionist paintings can pretty much be thought of as Impressionism 2.0. I paint the light and movement that I observe with my eyes, like the classical Impressionists did, but I also paint what I feel emotionally and sense intuitively.

Each painting focuses on a particular animal. Since animals will not hold still for me to look at them while I paint, I begin by photographing them. I enjoy visiting zoos to take these photographs. After I choose the best photo, I print and tape it to my wall so that the animal can “model” for me. Then I paint each painting by hand with the acrylics.

I also love to paint surreal landscapes that are mashups of various painting styles including cubism, surrealism, and impressionism.

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