About

 

(or how I went from the Pentagon to painting birds with cocktails)

This is the part of the website where I tell you that I got my first paintbrush at 3 and sold my first artwork by the age of 9. Not quite! I didn't even have an Atari until I was 10 (I think).

I paint mid-century modern acrylic paintings — flat color, bold palettes, and characters with more personality than they probably deserve. My main series, Drinks & Feathers, follows three birds through various cocktail-related situations: one who thinks he's the coolest one in the room, one who's having the time of his life, and one who would very much like to be somewhere else. They've been to tiki lounges, pool parties, and at least one casino. There are also swans, but they come and go as they please.

Every painting has something happening in a corner or a background detail that you probably won't notice the first time. That's on purpose. I like art that rewards a second look — and maybe a third one with a drink in your hand.

I'm also a licensed artist with Disney Fine Art, where I paint characters from the worlds I grew up obsessing over. And I was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Skywalker Ranch, which is still the single coolest sentence I've ever gotten to say out loud.

The path here wasn't exactly a straight line. My career started as an officer in the Air

Force in 1993, stationed at the Pentagon. I mostly did programming work, as the web had just started. One of the skills I picked up during that time was Photoshop. Version 3 was just released (layers!), and I was hooked. A few moves later — Austin, photography, a lot of fluorescent-lit offices I'd rather not think about — I found my way to painting around 2013 and discovered I had a lot of fun telling stories in this medium. We landed in Orlando in 2020, and now I paint full time out of my studio here.

Feel free to connect with me online here, or via any of the social media links below. I'd love to hear what you think of the work — and to learn something about you!