About Me

I enjoy working to bring life to the surface. My process: get the light and shadow, then make it glow, choosing the colors, feeling the personality, gesture and anatomy, finding the mood.
I make original drawings from several sources, photographic and live model. Emphasis on anatomy and skin colors using a limited palette of complementary colors.

I am forever pulled by the simplicity and complexity of the human figure. I capture a pose quickly and, hopefully, fluently. The figure is so personal, so close and I am so very aware of its image. I, therefore, feel that I must work within the confines of the figure again and again. I strive to draw the ideal figure and the perfect mood of the gesture while conscientiously trying to create a well-designed work of art. Studying and teaching anatomy and drawing is key to my growth.

Membership in Atelier 6000 / Bend Art Center, opened new horizons of adding chine colle to texture, ink to pastel and figure to surface. I’m currently a member of Art Students League of Denver, Redline Contemporary Art Center, 40 West Arts Gallery, NoBo (North Boulder) Arts District and Boulder Art Assoc. Teaching figure drawing and anatomy with Colorado Figure Drawing.

Work in the Pandemic pivoted to portraits, usually politically or socially relevant to the moment with series on Black Lives Matter/Black History Month, Pride Month/LGBBTQ, gun/police violence, and Women’s History Month.