I’m a lifelong artist with a lifelong passion for the portrait.  Currently I’m exploring portraiture in a unique way by combining my love for drawing the face with my years of experience as a fashion illustrator.

Fashion illustrating was for me the art of ‘seamlessly piecing together’ various photographic elements in order to draw the figures that best portrayed my client’s clothing.  I worked from their featured merchandise and my own files of reference photos.

Now each portrait begins with and is inspired by a photograph of the face.  My client supplies this photo.  Everything else needed to complete the portrait they envisioned comes from my own files of reference photos.

‘Your vision, your portrait’ is possible because of my desire as a portrait artist, which is to utilize my unique processes to provide my clients with portraits they want to see on their walls.

My materials are watercolors, colored pencils, and India ink on Stonehenge paper bonded to foam board.  Years of blending and ‘bending’ these materials lead to techniques that enabled me to create the paintings I’d been seeing in my mind.  They had detailed figure work.  They had an overall dramatic look.  And the people in them quite simply felt alive.