Although I have a minor in Fine Arts from Clemson University, I am essentially a self-taught artist. I have always loved art. As a child I began my artistic journey with sidewalk chalk. When the rain kept washing away my work, I decided to move on to something more lasting.

I am fascinated with color and texture. I enjoy manipulating color by raising or lowering its temperature, hue, saturation, or intensity. To do that, I work with a variety of media, including colored pencils, pens, oil pastels, oil paint, acrylic paint, markers, and even sidewalk chalk. My works employ unusual combinations of media and material. I have created works on cardboard, wood, canvas, clayboard, and scratchboard, experimenting on each of those with oil paint combined with pastels, pastels combined with ink and pencil, acrylic with markers, etc.

My work and style are best described as eclectic. In an attempt to better understand the relationship between realism and the abstract, I oftentimes do the same subject in both styles mixing colors and materials. In my work I am continually searching for the perfect combination of color, media and material.