🎨 About the Artist

“One of the things I enjoy about making paintings -- specifically about so-called ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’ scenes and objects -- is trying to present these things in a way that the viewer might discover beauty, or even poetry, in something normally overlooked.

“I am often attracted to busy, chaotic subject matter and the irony that is present in them. I’m especially drawn to the visual noise found in retail stores, malls, and amusement parks. Often there is so much going on in these commercial environments that it becomes an attack on our senses. This sensory overload seems to cause our minds to block out much of the visual noise, so that what was meant to be an attention grabbing, seductive scene has the opposite effect.

“I believe the act of taking an ordinary object or an every day scene and painting it, framing it, and hanging it on a wall allows that painted thing to sparkle, like a jewel. For me, a successful painting will elevate, transform, maybe even restore the magic that is present in things we are often not even aware we are seeing.

EDUCATION


1998-2000 Medical College of Georgia, Master of Science, Medical Illustration

1995-1998 University of Utah, Bachelor of University Studies


1997-2005 Helper Workshops, Helper, Utah


1992-1995 Salt Lake Community College

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2019

95th Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum, of Art, Springville, UT


“Destinations Unknown” Terzian Gallery, Park City, UT

“Celebration!” Purveyors of Fine Art, Anne Jespersen Fine Arts, Helper, UT

2018

Finch Lane Gallery “Square One: Helper Artists of Utah”, Salt Lake City, UT “Something About Place”, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT

94th Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum, of Art,  Springville, UT

2016

92^nd Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum, of Art,  Springville, UT 


“New Works”, Lane Bennion, Terzian Gallery, Park City, UT

2015

91st Annual Spring Salon, Springville, UT


Scottsdale Fine Art “Winter Group Show”, Scottsdale AZ

2014

“Recent Work”, Lane Bennion, Terzian Gallery, Park City, UT

“Artists of Helper Utah”, Coda Gallery, Palm Desert, CA