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02/19/2026

Super grateful to for including me in their “Three to Watch” in the latest issue alongside the incredibly talented and !! And stoked that compared my colors to those of Maxfield Parrish 😁

02/13/2026

Trying some new underpainting choices 🕺

02/12/2026

How it feels shipping paintings you love to their happy new home 🥲

01/29/2026

“Primordial Waters: The Start of Everything”. Oil paint on canvas. 2025. 18 x 24 in.
“Primordial Waters: The End of Nothing”. Oil paint on printed canvas. 2025. 18 x 24 in.

The first piece is a portrait of my grandmother Anne (who died of mad cow disease) as a child, sat before a large bovine presence. Together they represent the full spectrum of her life. That life was not an easy one, yet she dedicated it to serving her community, particularly the children in it. So, she and her cow are placed on this small outcropping surrounded by water, and there becomes a sense of foreboding to an otherwise tranquil scene. The child seems yet unaware of this, and the apple in her hands offers the choice of Eve in the Garden or Pandora with her box. If she could, would she do things differently?

In the second, the waters have become a flood, and the cliffs a world devouring serpent. Anne has eaten the apple, she sees good and evil clearly, and yet she still smiles. These mythic symbols of world destruction are also the symbols of rebirth. Mythic serpents like Jormungandr, Apothis, and Tiamat are the chaos that devours everything, but they’re also key to the natural cycle- hence the symbol of the ouroboros. The great floods that destroy the world in many mythic traditions always carry an element of cleansing in their surges. They are not so different from the primordial waters, which the universe springs forth from in the story of Genesis in Christianity or with Nefertem, the child god of the sunrise in Egyptian mythology. You cannot have good without evil, life without death, or hope without fear because they define each other. Doing good in the face of hardship is what makes it so precious.

01/15/2026

Detail shots from “Fishing Stories”

01/09/2026

Recent portrait commission of a joyous moment preceding a long and happy life together!

01/08/2026

Ended the year in Guatemala with the oldest stairmasters and volcano dogs 🎇

12/16/2025

Now that we’re into the second month of displaying “Memories of Myth” at Customs House Museum here’s the second pair of the five featured in the show, and brief dive into their meaning!

“Magic Mentor: Wise Uncle Norm”. Oil paint on canvas. 2024. 36 X 24 in.

“Magic Mentor: Bright Side of Ragnarok”. Oil paint on printed canvas. 2025. 36 X 24 in.

Photo credits to !!

The first piece is a portrait of my Great Uncle Norm, a nearly mythic figure from my dad’s side of the family, who imparted some of his worldly wisdom onto my father at a pivotal time in his life. In it you can see the age in his hands and face, the eccentric joy in his clothes, a reciprocal love of nature in his little dog Misty and the small yellow bird resting on his shoulder.
You might question the odd presence of the gun at his side on this stroll, and get a sense of his connection to a violence that doesn’t entirely match his character, yet is carried with him. Norm was a war hero who abhorred violence, but bore witness to it and had to take part in it while serving in WWII. The bridge he stands on references a story from that time, in which he hung beneath a bridge by his hands in the freezing cold as a German tank battalion passed overhead. He did so to continue his movement behind enemy lines and provide reconnaissance on the movement of that battalion to his fellow soldiers.

In the second piece, Norm has become Odin, the Norse God of wisdom, war, and poetry, to name a few. Odin who famously took out his own eye in exchange for wisdom, and sacrificed himself to himself on the World Tree for knowledge of mystical runes. Who on earth or in heaven better understands the price of wisdom?
And so he stands unsurprised as Misty, tethered by her leash, begets the wolf god Fenrir- pulling free from Gleipnir, the nearly indestructible thread which bound him. His release is the inevitable, wild reclamation of chaos, and it marks the beginning of Ragnarok, Odin’s death, the destruction of the great World Tree, and the end of everything as we know it. However, a new world follows the old in Norse mythology, just as a wise mind requires the death of an innocent one.

12/09/2025

So grateful to Customs House Museum and Cultural Center for a number of things, but especially for the beautiful feature in their December issue of Second and Commerce- Written by the wonderful and talented Shana Thornton 😁( )
You can read the full interview without bended pages (as well as the other wonderful articles) through this link: https://customshousemuseum.org/secondandcommerce/

12/03/2025

12/03/2025

Just a little drawing study I did and really enjoyed as prep for a piece in the new show.
Meant to be a depiction of fear and hope 🐦 🐮 🌊 😬