9×12 Oil on panel Titled, “Azaleas, my wife’s coffee cup”

I am an artist and art teacher who lives in Bentonville. I create both realistic and abstract drawings and painting of animals, people and landscapes in a variety of different media including pencil, colored pencil, acrylic, oil, charcoal and scratchboard.

As a photographer I strive to explore what is significant to me in a portrait session. I’m not looking at portraiture as a way of discovering the soul of my sitter. I reckon that both the sitter and the photographer bring a lot of baggage to the set. And that’s what makes it exciting. The collision of two individuals with different backgrounds always results in a mutual exchange between the two individuals. Big part of what I do is trying to reveal the human condition through my lighting. I like to explore what’s interesting rather than just rendering a likeness.