I grew up in Altanta, Georgia, though I must say, Texas is truly my home. It has been a place of great discovery for me and is the place where my heart opened. Here is where I've built my life and family.

For 20 years, I worked as a pastor in a mainline protestant denomination, working primarily in clinical pastoral education. My work for those years focused on the human passage from life to death to the mystery beyond and the grieving which accompanies that passage. My pastoral work was with both children and adults. This work formed my heart and the narrative of my life in profound ways; it molded and softened me and taught me deep truths about myself and the human journey. Truly the people I served gave much more to me than I ever gave to them. However, I reached a point in my life where I longed to focus my days' work on beauty  - creating it and apprehending it more fully in my life. Having always been a creative spirit, I changed my creative focus from writing and narrative to the visual arts and began a serious study.

Currently, my art is about a process of deconstruction and regeneration through the use of line, form, fragmentation and sensuality. I'm interested in conveying the emotional life, the inner landscape, of what I capture and compose, sometimes combining both visual and narrative art. I seek to give expression to the flaws, the strengths, the beauty, and desires of the inner landscape of the human psyche, whether the focus of attention is that of an abstract nude or form, a series documenting a process of regeneration, or a series focusing on the significance of family.

Experimenting with line is very pleasing to me. I enjoy exploring line using bold outlining strokes, multiple line, creating line with both paper and found objects and using fractured line to create fractured space. As as artist, I try to capture the eros and beauty of everyday life and to express an aura of sensuality in my work.

Beauty in Form, upper left corner