Representational oil painting has been a passion and subject of intensive study since I first tried oils in college in 2004. I am based out of Austin TX, and currently teach at The Doughtery Art Center and at Cordovan Art School.

Born on Long Island, NY in 1981, I moved to Texas in December 1999. As a child, my creative mother encouraged my artistic endeavors and active imagination with a constant supply of watercolors and pencils. After moving to Texas, I studied oil painting at The University of Texas at Austin and obtained a BA in studio art in 2006. In addition to painting, my studies focused heavily on literature and philosophy, which both still greatly inform my subject matter. I worked for a long time in an art supply store, which sparked years of intensive self-study and during that time I developed two demos for the public, on oil painting mediums and canvas stretching, which is how I discovered my love for teaching. In more recent years I have taken classes and workshops with the best artists I can find and learn from. The urge to paint both alla-prima, (wet on wet) and indirectly in traditional glaze layers is something I simply cannot resist and switching between the two methods satisfies the duality within that my work often explores thematically. When I'm not painting, I work with an artist collaboration building large scale interactive, wood construction installation art.

I am a member of the Portrait Society of America, and in 2020 won a scholarship to attend their annual (though virtual, due to pandemic) conference.