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 feeling 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 seen but only felt.  My work is an extension of the German Expressionist Theory, 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 of certain type of people, certain types of emotions, and how they interact with one another.  The energies that are given off between two people in a certain situation or the energies brought to bare upon people stuck in a certain emotional state.

    Hopefully, looking at my work releases emotions with in the viewer I believe that there are energies all around us all times coming to and from us, engulfing, and working within us. Hopefully my work will lend some understanding to the viewer about these ideas. 

    The connections between people, I believe, are the most important things in this world.  Without understanding that, this life becomes almost pointless, and hard to bare..