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 realized that throughout those years I had been collecting reference photos from our adventures: the dunes, prairies, wildlife, farms, old roads and familiar places of Northwest Indiana and the southern Lake Michigan region.

Much of my work now grows from that collection—and from a renewed habit of looking closely at the world around me. I paint nature, place, and the extraordinary things hidden in ordinary landscapes.