My artwork uses mostly recycled materials (discarded paint, paper, fabric, wood, and doors) with lots of layers and printmaking techniques. The images are improvisational—more about the journey than the destination—and create different perspectives to lure the viewer in more closely, to get curious, to see the texture, the details, and perhaps a title or caption. If I have any common themes, they are the importance of reconnecting humans with nature, valuing diversity and community while questioning concepts of progress, growth, economy, and health.

I am a musician, artist, wilderness athlete, and entrepreneur, not necessarily in that order. I’ve spent about three decades in print and digital media. I started painting professionally while I was in college. I owned a residential painting business and had a crew of between 10 and 17 other students assisting me. This was not the creative outlet painting is for me today, but it did form some fundamentals in mixing color, prep work and using a brush. After about fifteen years working as a graphic design and art director, I finally started working with paint, ink and any materials I could layer onto a panel. A two week intensive workshop at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on using printmaking techniques in painting was transformative for me and helped unlock my love for the tactile feelings of manipulating materials by hand and liberate me from the computer. I still take advantage of my skills with Photoshop, but I use it more as a navigational device helping determine the path a painting will take me down.

One of my biggest passions is fighting for fairness and justice—not just for people, but all of Earth’s life forms which are, large and small, all essential components of our existence. I’ve donated hours, weeks and even months of design services and consulting to at least a dozen different non-profits. I also served as virtual art director or web master for great orgs including Climate Justice Hive & Boulder dot Earth, 350 Colorado, KOTO Community Radio, Climate Colorado, Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Dear Governor Hickenlooper, the Ride Festival and the Telluride Jazz Festival. For the Valley Floor Preservation Partners, I designed the identity system and web site that were instrumental in raising $25 million in just three months to preserve open space in Telluride, Colorado.

With new media, I have an outlet for all of my skills and passions, satisfying creative needs as a musician, writer, artist, leader and project manager. Continuing on the path from design into music, I’ve been able to compose and record soundtracks and jingles for multimedia web sites, interactive CDs and three short films. Today I am a singer songwriter and perform solo on the bass.

I grew up in Concord, MA, call Telluride, CO “the Mother Ship,” spend summers in Maine, and live in Boulder, CO with with my wife and 21-year-old daughter, when she is home from art school.