untitled (to shimmer) 2012_02_22 Painting

American b. 1969 Artist I am a full-time artist living and working in Des Moines, Iowa. Trained as an architect, I established a studio practice pursuing personal work in the summer of 2012 named "West Branch Studio". I am the creative director and an artist / designer engaged in making public art as Senior Partner with the Art Studio at RDG Planning & Design in Des Moines, Iowa. The works represented here are personal works associated with West Branch Studio. For me, drawing is thinking. Drawing is a fundamental way to explore the relationships of action and reaction. The drawings are records: of the mind (thinking), of the hand (doing) and of the eye (sensing). With my drawing practice, my aim is to investigate the accumulation of lines representing a wide range of work from realistic depiction of form to abstract formlessness. I'm most intrigued by the possibilities of simple lines and the space in between thinking, doing and sensing.