About the Artist

When I was in college I had a professor who was so passionate about painting he would sometimes spill his coffee while showing us slides of Cézanne's work. He would show us a painting he had seen hundreds of times and exclaim as if he were seeing it for the first time, "Goddamn, that's beautiful!" Sometimes this was all he could think of to say. Occasionally I will make a picture that makes me think of that, and that is what I work for every day: for that moment when I feel I have been successful at recreating on paper what nature already created so exquisitely.

I believe all things happen for a reason. So I don't think it was an accident that a local photographer asked me to help in his studio the same week that a friend of his came to teach him how to do Polaroid transfers. After seeing the process I was hooked. I bought the equipment and a book and taught myself how to do it.

Emulsion Transfer Process

Art Resume

Education:

• Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Arts

• Graduated Cum Laude spring 1999

• Northwest Missouri State University

Awards and Honors:

• Best of Show - Prairie Village Art Show - June 2006

• Juror for the Hidden Glen Arts Festival - October 2005

• Best of Show in Photography - Prairie Village Art Show - June 2005

• Best of Show in Photography - Prairie Village Art Show - June 2004

• Cover of the Corinth Square Shops Spring flyer - April 2004

• Peer juror for the Plaza Art Fair - September 2003

• Cover of Detroit Free Press Guide to the Ann Arbor Art Fairs - July 2003

• Poster Artist - Prairie Village Art Show - May 2003

• Best of Show - Hidden Glen Arts Festival - October 2002

• Honorable Mention - Plaza Art Fair - September 2002

• Honorable Mention - State Street Area Art Fair - July 2002

• 3rd Place in photography/printmaking/2-d mixed media category - Old Town Art Fair - June 2002

• Best of Show in Photography - Prairie Village Art Show - May 2002

Juried art shows:

• Art on the Square - Belleville, IL 2006

• Art on the Square - Madison, WI 2005

• Westport Art Fair - Kansas City, MO 2005

• Bayou City Art Festival - Houston, TX  2004

• South University Art Fair - Ann Arbor, MI  2004

• Mt. Mary Starving Artists' Show - Milwaukee, WI  2004

• Brookside Art Annual - Kansas City, MO  2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Two Rivers Art Expo - Des Moines, IA  2002

• Hidden Glen Arts Festival - Olathe, KS  2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

• Plaza Art Fair - Kansas City, MO  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

• Uptown Art Fair - Minneapolis, MN  2002, 2003

• State Street Area Art Fair - Ann Arbor, MI  2002, 2003

• Old Town Art Fair - Chicago, IL  2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Prairie Village Art Show - Prairie Village, KS  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Laumeier Contemporary Art Fair - St. Louis, MO  2002, 2006

• Art @Park - Parkville, MO  2001

• Countryside Village Art Fair - Omaha, NE  2001

Other exhibits:

• Stella Luna Art Gallery - Smithville, TN   (615) 597-4004

• Camp For Kids Art Auction - September 2003 - Kansas City, MO

• FL Schlagle Library - Nov-Jan 2001/2 - Kansas City, KS

• Rick's Place Bounce Back Ball and Auction - August 2001 - Kansas City, MO

• One Block West Salon - May 2001 - Kansas City, MO

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