My most recent project is Love Cats an exhibit which turned into a Cat Calendar. The 2025 Cat Calendar features a different painting for each month.
Inspired by cats and songs by The Cure, these paintings derive from personal experience and photos shared by friends and art enthusiasts. It is a joy to paint and spend time with cats and show their different personalities and relationships with people. Each painting has a story and celebrates this feline furry friend!
So much of life is spent struggling against one thing or the next, whether it's society and politics, our jobs - at home, school or work, or our own self-image. This series explores that feeling of inevitability, day after day, and contrasts it with that which inspires. I found that these struggles make excellent stories.
ArtsJournal created a video of the artist's talk on this series. To view available original paintings, visit the artist's online shop.
The entirety of this book is an artist’s perspective: it is a collage of words and 45+ paintings, created to question how we define ourselves within society. The portraits capture the essence of individuals from Cottage Grove, Oregon, letting you see the world they spent a lifetime learning. They are juxtaposed with demographic data and personal interviews placed anonymously. Through this layering, you build a picture of society as you relate to the stories, constructing a tapestry through your own filter.
