I am a self taught artist. I started out selling commissioned portraits of horses, dogs, and other pets from local tack shops. I also took a few commissions for "people" portraits. (Not my favorite subject, but cash is cash) I also painted stuff on T-shirts and sweatshirts. Several hundred portraits later and none the richer, I took a break for a while, and only painted for myself for fun while I worked at a "real" job and raised a family. Now I'm sort of an empty nester and I have found more time to pursue my hobby. I usually just paint what I want nowadays. I am accepting commissions again, on a limited basis. See my commission page for info. Some of my work has been up for auction periodically on eBay or Furbid.

My favorite (other) artist is Beverly Doolittle who has been a great inspiration to me with her "Hidden Imagery" work. I just love it. Such fun, both to create and to look at. It is sort of interactive, in that the artist must read the mind of the viewer and hide things by subtle changes in color and sometimes by pure psychology. By that I mean knowing where the viewers attention will be, what will draw the eye and distracting it elsewhere. Only to have the viewer do a double take, and exclaim in surprise once they see what's hidden. I also love it when you can have a painting hanging on your wall for weeks, months, or even years and still see something in it that you have never noticed before. Paintings should never get boring with age, only better, like fine wines.

I took a class on leather craft in highschool, and became interested in making tack. For 15 years, I learned how to make various halters, bridles, stirrup leathers and how to repair saddles (for real horses). I did tack repair on the side for a while. Just recently, in 2006 I came across my childhood collection of model horses, which had been put into storage. This rekindled my love of the "plastic ponies". It was easy to apply my tack making skills in miniature, so I have been having fun duplicating lots of real horse tack in miniature to fit my Breyer horses. I also discovered a talent for working in 3-D. I completed my first original, traditional scale model horse sculpture, started from an armiture of steel wire and aluminum foil in August of 2007, just barely in time to enter it in the NJ state Fair, "Art in Sussex County" show, where it won 1st place. My acrylic painting "Black Unicorn" also won 2nd place at the show. I intend to practice resin casting on my warmblood sculpture, so hopefully I will be able to offer some copies of him for sale soon. I will be dabbling some more in original sculpture, as well as portrait customizing of model horses.