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. 

I hope you enjoy these small slices of my life.