We experience the world as overlapping sensations: wind, color, brightness, texture, scent, sound, and more… all while our minds chatter away. In recent paintings, I use varied techniques (scrapes, drips, splatter, and brushwork), composition, writing, and color to evoke some of that complexity. I build paintings through many overlapping layers — playing gloss against matte, opacity against transparency — to create rich, emergent surfaces. My paintings vary in style, but hallmarks include bold color, gestural marks, simple shapes, silly faces, and graffiti-like writing that stand out at first glance, while the complex interplay of layers and rhythm reveals itself to patient viewers.
Recently exhibited: These paintings were shown during November and December 2025 as part of a group show: Abstractions: Expressing the spiritual through a personal visual aesthetic at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Olympia.
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Expectation
It’s never what you think. That’s okay.
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Boundary
A meeting, a difference, a separation, a joining. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5, $750
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Rise and shine
This one shimmers in the light, radiant and bold. Mixed media on canvas, 24 x 24 x 1.5, not for sale
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City
Alive, pulsing, interrelated. Busy busy busy. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5, $1000
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Sea-napse
Movement, connection, collision, excitement. Two matched works, one shown here. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5 (each, hangs vertically), $800 as a set of 2, or $450 each
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Flower (1 - 2 - 3 - 4)
Variations on a simplified flower forms made from line and circle. Mixed media on canvas, 10 × 10 x 1.5 each, $225 individually, or $750 for the set of four.
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That’s life, innit?
Round and round, a big adventure. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 x 1.5, $300
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Alley wind
When you feel like layers of random graffiti blown and reassembled by wind. Mixed media on canvas, 12 x 36 x 1.5 (detail shown), $250
Snapshots of other painted work:
