I am thankful to have reached a place in my life where I can paint at my leisure.  Now that I am here, I am painting nearly every day.  I retired a few years earlier than planned to care for my wife Cindy, who had a brain hemorrhage caused by a glioblastoma. She passed away on Earth Day 2018 and remains an enduring source of influence and inspiration. 

I wasn’t a good student in high school and decided to go into the Navy.  I spent hours and hours at sea filling up sketchbooks and found a love of art.  After the Navy I went on to study art at Indiana University. 

After college I started working in advertising first in newspaper ad sales, then in the studio of an ad agency, next as an art director and designer and finally in marketing.

I had an incredible nearly 30-year marriage to Cindy, our daughter Katrina is a remarkable person and a bright light in my life.  I have married again to a wonderful loving partner Sandra. We live in a nice neighborhood outside Atlanta with two dogs (Spot and Lucy) where I have a small painting studio.