Traditional fantasy nowadays is like stale moldy cheese stuck in the back of some refrigerator.   Riddled full of clichés and done-to-death stereotypes.  My imagery doesn’t involve typical monsters and sword-and-sorcery types you’d find out of Tolkein or Brothers Grim.  Unlike the quest-involved protagonists of these popular tales and imagery, my characters are likely to be sassy and have a chip on their shoulder.  Instead of being like larger-than-life, demi-gods, my characters posses plenty of mortal attributes as well as faults.  They bicker and fight (sometimes over real mundane matters), do irresponsible and sometimes embarrassing things, filch each other stuff, and when it comes to confronting great peril, they are often seen running in the opposite direction.

As for my artistic technique, I like using realistic colors and textures one finds in nature.  I don’t like the bright, syrupy colors of Walt Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons—too artificial and tacky.

EDUCATION

1992-1994   Humboldt State University                                       Arcata, CA
                    Art Major.  B. A. in studio art

                   . Worked in Lithography lab as assistant.        
                   . Sold two-dimensional & three-dimensional works of art.

• Humboldt State Univ. Student Show 1992                   Arcata, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show 2001                  Eureka, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show 2002                  Eureka, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show  2003                 Eureka, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show  2004                 Eureka, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show 2005                  Eureka, CA
• Redwood Art Association Fall Show 2006                  Eureka, CA
       Judge:  Claudia Chapline  International artist, writer and curator

JURIED EXHIBITIONS (PAST AND RECENT)

• Toronto Canada Art Exhibition 1990                       Toronto, Canada
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 1991                      Ferndale, CA            Award
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 1994                      Ferndale, CA
• Redwood Art Association Spring Show 1999          Eureka, CA
          Judge:  Rene De Guzman  Curator Yerba Buena Center for the arts
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 1999                      Ferndale, CA
• Redwood Art Association Spring Show 2001         Eureka, CA
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 2000                      Ferndale, CA           Award                      Picture Sold
• Redwood Art Association Spring Show 2002         Eureka, CA
          Judge:  Miles Inada  Southern Oregon University
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 2002                      Ferndale, CA            Award
• Redwood Art Association Spring Show 2003         Eureka, CA
          Judge:  Kenneth Baker  SF Chronicle Art Critic
• California State Fair Summer 2003                         Sacramento, CA        Award 
• Redwood Art Association Spring Show 2004         Eureka, CA
          Judge:  Richard Shaw  Ceramic Sculpture UC Berkeley Art Dept.               
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 2004                      Ferndale, CA
• Junque Art Exhibition Fall 2004                              Eureka, CA
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 2005                      Ferndale, CA            Award
• Humboldt County Fair Summer 2006                      Ferndale, CA            Award
• Westhaven Center for the Arts                                Trinidad, CA
          Exhibition Fall 2006

Born in 1973 in Mountainville, California, and raised in McKinleyville.
Graduated:  McKinleyville High School, CA 1992.
Graduated: Humboldt State University, CA 1996.