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About I paint exclusively from personal experience, oil is my favorite medium. I've been juried into a few nice art shows, have sold internationally, and won numerous awards. I've been painting for over 18 years.

Personal Data Residence: Duluth, Minnesota. Spark bird: Eastern Whip-poor-will, whose song I fell asleep to on hot summer nights as a child. Runner-up spark bird: Eastern Wood-Pewee, who sang on the hottest of summer days while doing chores in my dad's garden.

Education Bachelor of Science, Journalism, Honors, University of Wisconsin at Madison. As an artist, self-taught.

Personal Interests Birds (of course!), photography, and caring for our environment by planting native trees and shrubs. I'm a supporter of dark skies, unkept lawns, weedy ditches, and pollinators. I'm also a tireless and determined warrior against invasive European buckthorn and common tansy.

Thoughts from the artist Thank you collectors. Your support makes a difference in my life. If you have purchased a work and would like me to know and/or would like to be on my mailing list, please email me. If you have purchased my work through a gallery, sometimes I don't know who you are. Works shown on my website are not exhaustive. I shy away from most galleries and don’t enter a lot of shows. Are you interested in a work? Have you seen a painting on my website but it's no longer there? Feel free to contact me, serious buyers only.

Art/Gallery Affiliations (past/present):

Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC

The Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville, MD

Hopkins Art Center, Hopkins, MN

Edge Center, Bigfork, MN

MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN

Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

Main Street Gallery, Cedarburg, WI

Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, WI
Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Janet Carson Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
The Arts Mill, Grafton, WI
New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Wolf River Art League, New London, WI
Waters of Superior, Duluth, MN
Laura Nohr Gallery, Platteville, WI
Mosquito Hill Art Gallery, New London, WI

Recent Awards:

2025 Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Wash. D.C. – Hon. Mention

2025 Edge Center, Bigfork, MN – Award of Excellence

2023 Edge Center, Bigfork, MN – Award of Excellence
2022 MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN – 1st Place and People's Choice
2022 Edge Center, Bigfork, MN – Best of Show
2020 Wolf River Art League, New London, WI – 3rd Place
2019 MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN – 2nd Place
2018 Wolf River Art League, New London, WI – Hon. Mention
2017 MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN – People's Choice
2016 Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth, MN – Hon. Mention
...and more, inquire if interested.

Supporters (past/present):

Bethany Lutheran College, MN

Duluth Trading Company, WI

Geraghty O'Loughlin & Kenney, P.A., MN

Port Washington State Bank, WI
South Pier Inn, Duluth, MN