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.

In 2018, I won a Juror’s Choice Award at Art City Austin and a grant from the City of Austin’s Building Capacity fund. In 2020 I won a scholarship (though virtual due to the pandemic) to attend the Portrait Society of America’s annual conference. My work has been on view in Austin City Hall for the last three iterations of The People’s Gallery. I have maintained studios previously at Pump Project, The Pump Project Satellite space and at Canopy Art Complex.