I grew up in a small town in Idaho. My parents were avid rockhounds and many of my early childhood memories are of being in places so remote only the coyotes knew we were there. As my parents spent the day digging to uncover the latest rock find, I would entertain myself getting down close to the earth to inspect and investigate the plants, rocks, or animals inhabiting my tiny world. I learned to tell the passage of time by the changing colors and textures of light on distant buttes and hillsides.

I have loved making art for as long as I can remember, and have always felt the need to express those moments of discovery, of light, and color, and nature, and the little details of life around me. I talk to plants. I touch and pet them, and almost always feel compelled to thank them for sharing some of their spirit with me.

My art is about finding the essence of the image and making it into something that expresses the emotion of the moment, to share discovery of things we sometimes forget to notice. It is to draw your breath in awe, and to experience joy can come from loving life in all its forms, in all its simplicity, and in all its complexity.