I have been making art for most of my life. It the way I make sense of the world. What I love about drawing is that it demands a focus which pre-empts my day-to-day thoughts. I use charcoal because it is fast and dramatic and primitive.

In many ways, the drawings that I have been doing for some twenty-odd years chronicle my emotional and intellectual life. They are a synthesis of my feelings, and what I see going on around me. I work from intuition and the drawings are a record of the process more than a product.

Last summer, I did a lot of small, local landscape paintings. This year I have been painting a lot of deer paintings. The large, figurative, composite paintings on this website, are from photographs of friends and places I have been.

I will be having a show entitled "Tin Cans and Charcoal," at the Phantom Gallery in October, in Santa Rosa. I will also be participating in this year's ARTrails Sonoma County event, so come by my studio in October.

Last year, I showed some paintings at the Pesto Bar and Grill in Sebastopol, participated in a group show at The Phantom Gallery, and was part of another group show,"Control," at SomArts in San Francisco. I teach Art and Video Art at the middle school level.