About Me

Art is hopeful. In a world that distorts and diminishes, art is the force that lifts us above the noise — toward something truer, more luminous, more human. My studio in Lodi, Ohio is where that pursuit becomes real: a space where I bear my vulnerabilities on canvas and paper, and where simplicity, expression, and social justice converge.

My primary subject is portraiture — faces of people who inspire me, whose lives and struggles and visions remind me why this work matters. Through watercolor, acrylic, and dry media, I seek an honesty of mark that mirrors an honesty of intention. Each piece is an act of witness as much as craft.

I hold a BFA in painting from The University of Akron, and my engagement with art history continues to inform how I see and what I make. In 2025, that creative vision extended into a new form with the publication of Irpin's Big Adventure, a children's book I authored and illustrated — storytelling as another way of reaching toward the hopeful.