I came back to painting after more than twenty years away from it.
I studied fine art, but life took me in other directions – graphic design and raising a family. For more than two decades, I barely painted. When I returned to making art in 2024, I turned to my interest in the dunes, prairies, wildlife, farms, old roads and familiar places of Northwest Indiana and the southern Lake Michigan region.
Much of my work grows from a renewed habit of looking closely at the world around me. I paint nature, place, and the extraordinary things hidden in ordinary landscapes.
I've also enjoyed designing WPA-style posters which feature my original paintings, a marriage of the traditional fine art and my graphic design work.

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