I developed an eye for composition and light while working as a photography editor in Boulder, Colorado. My love for oil painting began in 2000 during a plein air workshop with Don Ward in Taos, New Mexico. I have also had the opportunity to study landscape painting with Leigh Gusterson in Taos, as well as portraiture with Seamus Berkeley at the Taos Institute of Art, and figurative painting with Andrea Kemp and Margaretta Gilboy at the Denver Art Students League.

In the last few years I have developed a passion for painting portraits of children. I am inspired by a range of artists including Mary Cassatt, Joaquin Sorolla, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and John Singer Sargent, as well as contemporary master Richard Schmid. I strive to express with painterly realism the true likeness and gesture while capturing a moment in time. My instinct as a painter is to study the grace and beauty in every object, place, or person with an emphasis on light and color.

EXHIBITIONS: 

AUM Gallery Holiday Miniature Show, December 2014
Denver Art Students League Summer Art Market, June 7-8, 2014
AUM Gallery Spring Invitational, April 11-May 9, 2014
AUM Gallery Holiday Miniature Show, December 2013
AUM Gallery Summer Sizzle Invitational, August 2012
AUM Gallery Floral Invitational, September 2011

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