I’ve always been interested in telling stories.

Long before I began painting seriously, I was a musician and songwriter. I spent years writing songs, playing guitar and keyboards, and learning how much can be communicated through atmosphere, restraint, and the things left unsaid. Eventually, that same instinct found its way into photography and painting.

My work is rooted in the American West—not necessarily the West as it exists, but the one that lives somewhere between memory, mythology, and the present. Cowboys, empty landscapes, old trucks, forgotten architecture, horses, cameras, and remnants of another time appear throughout my paintings. I’m interested in placing those familiar images into compositions that feel contemporary, quiet, and sometimes slightly displaced from time.

There is usually a story behind each painting, but I don’t necessarily want to tell the viewer what that story is. Much like a song, I want the image to suggest something and leave enough space for someone else to bring their own history to it.

My background in songwriting still influences the way I work. A painting begins much the same way a song once did for me—with an image, a feeling, a fragment of memory, or an idea I can’t quite let go of. From there, I try to reduce it to what matters.

I live and work in Colorado.