ARTIST STATEMENT

I have lived in Montana for more than forty years, and this landscape, its vastness, quiet, and unfiltered honesty has shaped both my life and my work. I am a self-taught abstract and landscape painter working with oils, acrylics, and cattle markers on canvas and wood. My process is intuitive and physical, unfolding in focused, hour-long sessions that serve as both meditation and movement.

Before becoming a full-time artist, I spent many years working as a psychotherapist. Art had always been a tool I used in clinical settings to support expression and trauma work, and it became equally essential to my own emotional processing. As a student, I began selling paintings as a street artist on Sunset Boulevard to help support my education. That experience, connecting with people through art in such a direct way, cemented my belief in creativity as a form of communication and healing.

Over time, my studio practice and my clinical practice grew together, each informing the other. Art-as-expression remains central to how I move through the world, whether I am navigating difficult emotions or responding to the landscape and seasons around me. My work is ultimately an exploration of feeling, place, and the quiet internal shifts that mark a life lived closely with nature.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

∠ Queen City Framing Art – Helena, MT [May and August, 2016–2021]

∠ Holter Museum of Art – Helena, MT [June 1–30, 2013, August 1–30, 2015]

∠ Ten Mile Creek Brewing Taphouse – Craig, MT [May 1-October 30, 2023–2026]

∠ Montana Veterans Foundation Gallery – Helena, MT [May 1 – June 30, 2012]

COMMISSIONS

∠ Bear Mountain Capital, Seattle, WA

∠ Private collectors: Numerous works in private collections.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENT

Artwork selected for poster for Bozeman Virtual International Film Festival