I am a landscape artist working in soft pastel in Richardson, Texas. North Texas (the parts that aren’t city) is blackland prairie, mostly farmland, with some parks and man-made lakes. It is not an area one would readily call scenic or beautiful. But there is beauty here if one seeks it out: the way the evening light falls on a tree or the morning sun reflects on a streambed or down an alley. 

I paint the local area to keep myself tuned to the everyday beauty around me and to more fully appreciate what I have in my own backyard. 

With a few exceptions, the paintings here are from locales within ten miles of my home: Prairie Creek Park in Richardson, Oak Creek Park in Plano, White Rock Lake in Dallas, and the John Bunker Sands Wetlands south of the city, to name a few. 

I am a member of the Pastel Society of the Southwest and the Pastel Society of America, and have exhibited in the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) juried biannual show in Albuquerque, with the Pastel Society of the Southwest, and the Richardson Civic Art Society. 

I hope you enjoy these small slices of my life.