Serious about painting. Not so serious about everything else.

I've always loved to draw, paint and make things, but it wasn't until my family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina that it occurred to me I might be an artist. That was 2018. I asked myself, "what does it mean to be an artist anyway?" I've been painting my way toward an answer ever since.

My work is intentionally joyful. I paint small things: moons, circles, wildflowers, patched-together boards. Delight is worth taking seriously. I work in one series at a time, about a year each. When a series is done, I move on; the paintings stay here as the trail of breadcrumbs.

Before all this I earned a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Statistics, which mostly means I run my experiments in oil paint now. I live with my family in Southern California, and I'd genuinely love it if you said hello.