I have been drawing all of my life. I am a self-taught artist and, while the internet is a wonderful place, full of information to be learned, I fall back on my father’s teaching and my basic skills which include observation and interpretation. I have lived in many places, various states here in the U.S.A. and The Philippines, Japan, Germany and have traveled extensively. College was Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Nature is my home. It teaches me endurance with pain and distress, joy in its constancy, relief in its solitude and knowledge that everything passes eventually and, despite all of the destruction humans visit upon it, it still stands strong. It will be here long after we are gone, still immutable, still beautiful. Human structures are all simply tents, standing for just moments. We can celebrate them as temporary homes but our only true home is this earth and all it gives us. I paint that home, that awesome, welcoming, forbidding land that I love.
