I was born in Fairfax Virginia and spent my childhood in the suburbs of Washington DC, the mountains of West Virginia, and the gulf coast of Florida.  After receiving my MFA from the University of Central Florida, I established a studio on a family farm in the Appalachian Mountains.  

My fascination with marmots or groundhogs as they are more commonly known originated with my move to the “Con Place”, the family farm settled six generations ago in Ashe County, North Carolina.  Groundhog spotting from the front porch has been a shared family pastime that I fell into without any hesitation and has inspired my most recent Megalomarmot series.

 

I am heavily influenced by the artworks of Peter Paul Rubens, Eugene Delacroix and Henry Fuseli.

 

By fusing classical imagery with passions and vicissitudes of the contemporary world, I create images that are riddled with both overt and subtle humor. These paintings are intended to illuminate the futility of guilt and frustration we encounter in the struggle for identity and meaning by arousing laughter, indignation, curiosity, and finally recognition.