My work can best be described as "giant cut-out art", ordinarily viewed from the comfort of your automobile. I call myself a muralist, but I discovered years ago that painting on a wall was restricting to the effect I was looking for.

After earning my art degree from Cal State Long Beach in 1984, I worked in Southern California as a portrait artist, rendering detailed pencil drawings. My patrons were movie and television actors, writers, and producers.

In order to reach a larger audience, I would relocate to Central California periodically and convince a farmer to let me paint his barn. This ultimately led to commissions from the local area.

The evolution of the cut-out paintings was slow, with a hand sticking above a fence line as a start, then a complete automobile in front of a wall, and eventually to the feeling that the wall was unnecessary and that the cut-outs could stand on their own. The landscapes behind the figures became the background.

I started working in giant scale in 1995, realizing that in order for the viewer to 'take in' the cut-outs from a moving car, they had to be more monumental in size. When possible, I'll include a sense of humor in my scenes to connect with the viewer.

My projects are now located throughout California and the Midwest and have ben featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic, Sunset, Reader's Digest, and the New York Times.



Installations:
The Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX. 'Big Landscape-Big West.' November 2006 to December 2006.
Group Show 'Big' at the Cameron Museum & Art Gallery in Wilmington, NC. November 2007 to April 2008.

Grants:
Cultural Council for Monterey County, 2003, towards the project 'Poppy', a 15 foot tall tiled painting installed on a hillside in Salinas, CA.