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MFA- Pratt Institute, New York  -  Painting/New Media
BFA- School of the Art Institute of Chicago  - Sculpture/Fiber

Having grown up in the South and living as an adult in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the urban landscape has been a central part of my life. Every city owns it’s own personality and aesthetic. The lush green hills and red clay dirt of Atlanta inspired my earthy connections to the landscape, while the raw, gritty and rather honest landscape of New York inspired my moody and weighty artwork.  Chicago spawned a dark, turbulent and expressionistic environmentally influenced body of work, while San Francisco nurtured a very thoughtful and conceptually based landscape.i

My biggest strength is the ability to visualize something from beginning to completion conceptually and then create my painting with a very honest vision. I'm a colorist and really understand how to use color in my work as well as composition.
I work in mixed media in which I combine traditional paint such as oil and acrylic with non traditional digital oil painting on canvas
My work has been seen on the sets of Six Feet Under, Entourage, ER and West Wing and most recently the Vampire Diaries.
I get inspired by the every day life situations that I encounter and living in what was the original Old Hollywood neighborhood of the 1920's.