ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings come from a love of people, music, nature and color. Turning those passions into paintings is what I was born to do. Placing contrasting colors next to each other, light against dark, large shapes next to small shapes and having the finished painting connect with other people is why I paint.

Many of my paintings are based on the statement of artist Paul Klee, “make the invisible visible." Other paintings are a translation of what I have seen and an attempt to communicate an insight. They are never exact replication of life.

What am I trying to portray? The energy in musicians, the rhythm in nature, or camaraderie of the people who inhabit my paintings. Does the painting bring life light and energy into the room? Making paintings that answer these questions is deeply satisfying.

RESUME

National Exhibitions
2007 Western Colorado Watercolor Society, Colorado
2006 Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Illinois
1994 Western Colorado Watercolor Society, Colorado
1992 Western Colorado, Watercolor Society, Colorado;
Montana Watercolor Society, Montana
1991 Rocky Mountain National, Colorado;
Watercolor West, California

Galleries
Art Cats, Muskegon, Michigan
Galleria Del Corazon, Benton Harbor, Michigan
Grand Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Don Drumm Studios & Gallery, Akron, Ohio
Koucky Galleries, Bokeelia, Florida
Synchronicity, Glen Arbor, Michigan

Group Exhibitions
2006 Summer Art Fair*, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2005 Boston Mills Art Festival*, Ohio; The Village Fine Art*,
Rochester, Michigan
2003 New York Art Expo, New York, New York
2002 Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, New York
2001 Oakbrook Art Festival*, Oak Brook, Illinois
2000 Festival 2000*, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1996 Boston Mills Art Festival*, Ohio
1992 Call it the Blues*, Central Michigan University, MI
1990 Muskegon Regional*, Muskegon, Michigan
1989 Celebration Exhibition*, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1986 Holland Fine Art Exhibition*, Holland, Michigan

*Denotes Award