I didn't go to art school. I didn't finish high school either. I grew up in a small Texas town where people got married young, stayed stuck, and nobody talked about dreams. I moved out at 15 and figured the rest out on my own.
What I figured out was business. I spent decades building and running companies, managing people since I was 19, starting things from scratch and seeing them through. I know how to build something real. When I turned to art full time in 2025, I brought all of that with me.
Art found me the way most important things do — sideways, when I wasn't looking for it. First through crochet in 1986, then through a paint-by-number kit during the pandemic that cracked something open I didn't know was closed.
Today I work full-time out of my studio in Texas creating original paintings, pyrography, and mixed media works. My work is symbolic, surreal, and narrative-driven. It deals with transformation, thresholds, and the psychology of before and after. Doors that don't open. Rooms that hold memory. Moments caught between what was and what's next.
I spent years working inside the recovery world — building community, witnessing people rebuild their lives from the ground up. That world is in everything I make. Not as subject matter, but as understanding. I know what it means to carry something heavy into a room and leave it there in the work.
My collectors are people who want more than something beautiful on their wall. They want something that knows something. Something that stays with them.
If a piece stops you — if you find yourself coming back to look at it again — that's not an accident. That's the work doing what it was made to do.
Original work is available in my shop. Prints of select pieces are also available for collectors who want to start there. For commissions, please use the form below — I take a limited number each year and I ask for creative latitude.
