I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in January 1975.  Went to elementary and high school here and eventually continued on to college here as well.     

    Throughout my life, my work has always been dark, from grade school into high school and college.  Always tainted by sadness and anger.  Sadness for the loss of my mother at a young age, anger for the ripples of repercussions from that event.  Tearing most of my family apart and leaving me mostly feeling alone.

    During my college days I worked through a lot of these feelings and began to notice and take interest in the ‘emotional scars’ and states of other people.  My last year of college and to this day, I still take great interest in the feelings of others, recognizing, scrutinizing and eventually trying to represent in paint these emotions and states of being.

    My work has been favorably looked at by many here in Milwaukee as well as others nation wide, either via internet or by physical shows.

    I continue to paint, to not only help the tender scars within myself, but hopefully to help people understand the hurt within others as well as within themselves.

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    Simply stated, my work is an expression of what can not necessarily be seen, only felt.  My work is an extension of a German Expressionist idea that is: If you are forced to paint a person or object without relying on how it looks to represent it , all that is left is how it feels and the spiritual or emotional impression it leaves with the artist.

    Keeping this in mind, my work is an attempt to represent people in states of heightened emotions: archetypes engaged in emotional and spiritual conflict from within and without.  My work relies on the use of color and paint to represent energies; creative and destructive energies that are brought forth from us and brought to bare upon us.

    My paintings are powerful images, vibrant and dynamic,  intended to invoke a response.  The viewer is compelled to look at my work; take part, and understand the story of the archetype(s), hopefully identifying with the emotion, the struggle, and the humanity within.


---the story of one person is the story of all humanity---