Ever since I was a kid, I was attracted to drawing and painting (and Legos). If I wasn’t building another Lego spaceship, I was drawing something... anything.

My Grandmother was the first to introduce me to watercolor, igniting a fascination for the way the pigments spread out on wet paper. I never lost that fascination.

Throughout middle school, I expanded to other mediums, including pencil, charcoal, airbrush, pen & ink, acrylics, and oils. I mainly stuck with oils in my free time, painting every week at Rene Pendarvis' studio in Pueblo West.

Oils were fun, but I always came back to watercolors. Being such a difficult medium, you never really own it, you just swim in it, letting it take you along for the ride. You may have an idea or direction, but the watercolors lead the way. It’s the ultimate in letting go. My last couple years of high school, I was lucky to study under Pueblo watercolor artist, Lorene Lovell, which really cemented my love for the medium. After graduation, I was fortunate to attend the Colorado Institute of Art on a full- ride scholarship, then receiving the Fernando Botero Scholarship after my first year. I graduated with a degree in Visual Communications and began my career in graphic design, putting fine art on the backburner while also getting married and raising a family.

Finally getting back to painting, my most recent work is more abstract/surrealistic, mixing granulating, staining, and repelling pigments to create interesting interactions of texture, negative space, and flowing color, contrasting with structural shapes. It’s always a different journey, thanks for sharing in mine.