Starting a new painting is a bit like setting off on an adventure. I don’t know where the journey will take me, but I feel pulled toward a place where symbols, textures, shapes, light, and color might reveal something unexpected. Few paintings have embodied that sense of discovery more fully than my latest work, The quest   (shown below). Like every still life I paint, I rely on intuition rather than rationality to tap into an inner world where ideas emerge through the symbol

It might as well have been the holy grail. That's how excited I was to find the dusty anatomical heart model in a junk store just west of...

I'm never quite sure why I feel the urge to create a still life around a specific object. For my painting, In search of the muse (shown...

When I set up a still life for a painting, I start with an object I find interesting and then rely on my instincts to guide me toward a...

The metal businessman figurine in my painting, Everyone thought Frank was a company man (shown at the bottom of this post) was found in a...

A set of vintage Yakity-Yak Teeth became the impetus for my painting, The illusion of shame (shown at the bottom of the page). Purchased...

The decision to work with the vintage Texan Jr. cap gun in the painting, Anatomy Lesson (shown below) came as an extension to the...

If you've looked at my body of work, you probably noticed that I have an affinity for dolls and toys. I think it's an extension of the...

I had so much fun working with Jane West in my previous painting that I decided to see where the Chief Cherokee action figure might lead....

I found the above glass horse in an antique shop several years ago and had wanted to use it in a painting for some time. It wasn't until...