I have a degree in accounting, was a software developer for 5 years, and that all led to my true passion one day when I decided to try and draw art for a video game. I picked up a pencil, fell in love with the process immediately, and never wrote a line of code for the game.

IInitially, I started off drawing with an emphasis in realistic pencil drawings, particularly portraits. I had great success there and it taught me so much, but as I threw myself into art and learned of beautiful paintings with colorful, complex brushstrokes that came alive on the canvas, I knew I had to try it myself. So I switched…again.

Then, in 2021 I moved from Texas to Oregon, driving across the country in a week. Landscapes had never intrigued me before but suddenly as I saw giant beautiful mountains rise out of the ground before me, vast fields that never ended, snowy peaks that touched the clouds, suddenly I understood.

Six months after moving across the country, switching jobs, and getting what felt like my dream life, I lost someone very dear to me and my life was turned upside down. In those lost, grieving moments I would take to the forests, to the mountains, to the coast and it’s hard to describe but I felt the land comforting me.

Maybe the beauty was that immense to someone who grew up in flat, dusty land, maybe it was that these trees were here before us and will remain after too, maybe it was something more, but it’s something I can’t put into words. That feeling is exactly what I’m after when I paint these moments, to try and put on canvas what I can’t say in words.

These days you can find me teaching one-on-one private lessons online and in person, painting commissions, and exploring for new ideas. Scan here to checkout my website for more work and subscribe to my newsletter to stay up to date!