Bio

About The Artist

My paintings are a culmination of several diverse painting techniques that I use together to transform commonplace items into scenes of significant beauty. After several years of developing my painting style, I have found that by uniting elements of realism, elements of abstract painting and the chiaroscuro style, which is the contrast between light and dark, I can create paintings that capture the essence of the subject.

Since 2004 I have studied with David Leffel and Rose Frantzen along with several other artists at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art and the DuPage Art League.

Favorite painters and illustrators are: Rembrandt, DaVinci, John Singer Sargent, Rubens, Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, David Leffel, Mike Capser, Roger Dean, William Matthews and Howard Terpning.

2009 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Patron Awards, St. Charles Fine Art Fair
Merit Award, Eastside Millennium Art Festival
Best of Painting, Art at the Glen
Merit Award, Glen Ellyn Art Fair
Featured Painting, Chicago Merchandise Mart’s Dream Home, April 17–December 18, Chicago, IL
Du Page Art League Merit Awards:
Art Imitates Art 2009
Down The Road, Path, the Lane, 2009
Every Blooming Thing 2008

ASSOCIATIONS

Oil Painters of America

Du Page Art League

Naperville Art League