Homesteading Painting

My journey as an artist began at a very young age. As a child of a navy officer I was born in Jacksonville Florida but soon after moved abroad to Rota Spain. One of my earliest memories is of walking the cobblestone streets of Rota to find chalk artists creating masterpieces there on the narrow and sun sprinkled streets. The color beauty and raw emotion that can be sewn into a work of art amazed me then, at a very young age as it still does today. It is only after I have brought these three elements together that I know a painting is complete. As a professional Plein air landscape artist working predominantly in oil paint I strive to translate the emotional experience through the use of light color and composition. Pulling directly from my past but also equally inspired by my home here in Pennsylvania.