My Story

I am a San Francisco-based figurative artist, writer, and lecturer. Born in Oxford, Mississippi, I was raised in America’s deep south until the age of twelve. I spent my teenage years living between Los Angeles and New York, finally settling in California’s wine country north of San Francisco. I have a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from the Academy of Art University, both with honors. For more than a decade I was a professor in the graduate department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. My work has been featured in dozens of museum shows and is collected by civic and educational institutions, as well as private patrons across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

In addition to painting, I am the editor-in-chief of Musings-on-Art.org, where I write monthly articles on various Russian and European artists. I also write for numerous publications, including contributing to textbooks for Palgrave Macmillan, articles for the Military History Quarterly, American Arts Quarterly, and Golf & Leisure Magazine. I have also written for the art magazines Southwest Art, Art Collector, International Artists Magazine, Contemporary International Artists and Art Business News. My museum and library articles include: Morris Graves Museum – Motion & Meaning Thesis and the Brooklyn Art Library – The Sketchbook Project, Limited Edition Brooklyn Art Library Press.

Between visits to Russia, I live in Northern California along side two Russian Wolfhounds. When not tending to my garden, I keep busy enjoying time in my painting studio.