Artist Statement

Art has always been my passion. After graduation from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree I enjoyed a long career as a graphic designer. My clients included Andy Griffith, Aaron Neville and CeCe Winans to name a few. Then by chance a client asked me to create a series of paintings…that one project re–ignited my original love of painting. I retired from computers and client meetings to pastures and tubes of oil paint! I paint every chance I get… from the beautiful Appalachian mountain range to the Grand Tetons, wild mountain thyme in the Scottish Highlands, or quiet marshes along the bay, nature is my muse. Influenced by the Impressionist artists of the past and American Plein Air artists past and present, my goal as a painter is to reflect the incredible scene that the natural world presents to me. My studio is located on the peaceful Eastern Shore of a small town I now call home, Fairhope, Alabama. Painting in my studio from small PleinAir sketches allows me to bring the scene back in a fresh exciting way. I am truly privileged to have continued my painters education with several nationally recognized landscape artists: Roger Dale Brown, Howard Friedland, and Scott Christensen. Christensen OPAM.