I first learned I was creative when I was about 20 and took a drawing class at the local community college. At the end of semester review, my instructor told me he thought I should be a brick layer instead of an artist when we started. He wasn't wrong but that class ignited something in me.

After 30 years of graphic design and other creative pursuits, I found my way back, this time to painting.

Through my artwork, I seek to create thresholds to the extraordinary residing within the ordinary. Through Presence Portals that blend representation and abstraction, and still life paintings that reveal the quiet magic of everyday objects, I hope to invite viewers to pause in the space between feeling and interpreting.

I believe everyday life is a portal to magic. My hope is that these paintings will serve as visual reminders of this truth—tangible evidence that wonder awaits just beyond our habitual ways of seeing. Each piece offers an invitation to cross a threshold into deeper presence, where the familiar reveals its inherent mystery.