"Intellectual Rigor" Painting

After earning a graduate business degree with High Honors from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, I have led a successful career as a branding and marketing strategist for well-known consumer product and financial services companies as well as technology and entrepreneurial adventures. Whether launching new brands or leading digital marketing, I was always the client interacting with highly creative people – writers, artists, designers – to create new advertising, packaging and promotional materials. Eventually, my interest in the creative side emerged and I began to paint. Through a series of group and private workshops and always reaching out to artists I admired I began to study the art and techniques of painting, evolving over time from a purely representational painter to become an abstract artist. Abstraction reflects the act of painting as much as the end result – the journey to the completed piece is part of the experience.