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Biography

I am a retired veterinarian who at the age of 42 decided to start painting .

It had been a faint idea for years, but amidst the busy life of practicing medicine, raising two children, and all the other distractions of modern life I never got started. But one day I thought "What am I waiting for?", went to Hobby Lobby, purchased some paints, and just started. I sat on the floor of my basement on an old plastic table cloth with a canvas propped up on a cardboard box. From that point on I was hooked and painting has become my delightful obsession.

My career as a veterinarian was full of logic and deduction, analysis and diagnoses, evaluating objective physical findings and data to come up with a conclusion. Daily I saw joy and birth, trauma and illness, and unfortunately a great deal of grief and loss as well. The art is a mystical and fascinating escape into a world of beauty, stillness, and color. My only thought is striving to capture the fleeting light in a landscape, or the love in the eyes of a cherished pet, the quirky beauty of the mundane, and to celebrate with joy the connection of the human/animal bond. For me, that is a little glimpse of God, a preview of heaven here on earth that I see in the natural world around me. I may be walking on a trail or driving on a country road and see a glimpse of light and shadow across a field and I instantly recognize my next landscape. I may be going about daily life in my house, my car, or at work, and I stumble across some expression on my dog's face, or a classic canine pose at home or at work, and I instantly know I have to try to capture it. It seems to me that we live in a world that can be a very dark place. There is chaos and suffering all about us. All you have to do is turn on the evening news and the images of violence and sorrow are overwhelming. I want my art to reflect tidbits of color and joy that are all around us if only you will look for them. I find comfort in the order of nature, unaffected by the conflicts and arguments of man. I find comfort in the innocence of the beloved pets that I interact with daily and the love and happiness they impart to us humans. I have no formal art education or accolades from prestigious galleries or shows. I am simply attempting to capture the vision of my heart.

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