My oil painting lands somewhere between realism and impressionism. Lately I’ve been combining fluid acrylics and metal leaf with realistic oil painting. My works have varied from tiny panel blocks to door-sized paintings.

I earned my BA at Stanford University.  It was through their overseas program in Paris that I had my first glimpse into master oil painting techniques, and the chance to work as a copyist at the Louvre.  After college, I ended up taking a left turn into CG animation, studying briefly at the UCLA Animation Workshop in Los Angeles. I worked as a character animator at an Oscar-winning special effects house for about eight years.

Those years of overtime in dark cubicles gave me a thirst to return to painting. Even though animators and digital artists were a truly fun bunch to work with, painting keeps me in the moment and connected with reality. It's a time and place to breathe, to feel lucky, to observe, and to try things . . . exploring what light has to reveal.