ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings transmute lived experience into visceral fields of raw color, urgent gesture, and layered form. I work on unprimed canvas laid across the studio floor, transforming each surface into a dynamic arena where oil, acrylic, and unconventional tools fuel an instinctive, full-body engagement. Textures accumulate, hues collide, and compositions emerge purely through the momentum of action.

I move fluidly between multiple large canvases, letting each series become its own investigation of intensity, joy, conflict, resilience, and spiritual seeking. The marks register velocity and pause, vulnerability and resolve—the turbulence and grace that define a life.

Based in Boulder, Colorado, after growing up in Connecticut, the decisive turn toward painting began in California. While working in architecture at Gensler in Los Angeles, the pull of the studio overtook me; the West Coast light and endless horizon redirected my path. Santa Barbara— my grandparents retired in Montecito, my mother and stepfather later settled, and where I spent decades of coastal summers driving up Highway 1—became the place that first tuned me to nature’s quiet mystery. That early-morning fog, salt air, and rolling hills still resonate in every canvas. A single sugar pine cone from those hills sits on my desk: talisman of family, coastline, and the conviction that beauty appears when I surrender control.

Life changed forever on September 11, 2001, when my wife survived the collapse of the World Trade Center. That day propelled me out of finance, into architecture, and finally into full-time painting, where the architectural instinct now manifests in scale, structure, and fearless gesture. The largest works are acts of reclamation—monumental declarations of renewal through the sublime force of color.

Harnessing the energy of the hero’s journey, I begin each painting with a single, uncertain mark and let the canvas instruct the next. What was once expressed on athletic fields is now poured into strata of pigment: a real-time revelation of movement, perseverance, connection, and the stubborn hope that beauty can rise from chaos.