I consider myself to be a multimedia artist blending my love for music and pop culture as well as nostalgic history into mostly acrylic pieces. Currently my preferred materials are acrylic-based paints on canvas, but I have been also known to create in pastel chalk with dabs of acrylic black marker on everything from paper to wood. After putting aside hand created art for over thirty years to concentrate on graphic art, I have found that when returning to more natural creation, my graphic arts methods at times come into play as I often paint in layers much like one would screen or plate print. At the same time I also look back to simple techniques of my childhood for inspiration in odd ways such as through lead transfer early influences such as sixties and seventies pop art. The experiences creating a bridge between my history as not only a visual artist, but as a creator of album cover, book and magazine art not to mention as a music journalist featured in publications around the world but as far as visual art itself, I accept commissions and usually prefer to create new pieces for art shows especially in series form.

Having lived in various locations abroad and in the United States as a US Army dependent before settling down in my hometown of Augusta, Georgia, I currently reside and work out of Aiken, South Carolina. While most of my works are inspired largely by pop culture people, places and things, I tend to mostly attempt to put an odd twist on them whether color-wise, setting or both. My “Writer’s Block” series – an ongoing group of large up-close facial depictions of book, song, film writers on 14”x14” square canvas has been well-received worldwide and recently I have found great pleasure putting local faces in well-known area haunts. The inspirations have led to pieces displayed across the southeast in various group and solo art exhibitions.

Since returning to art during the pandemic my visual art experiences have included:

May 2021 – Co-writing and releasing pop music book, Hooked Onna Feelin’

October 2021 – Co-Curating first art show, Dark Arts Show in Augusta, Georgia

December 2021 – Taking a position as Gallery Assistant at Art n Soul of Aiken

December 2021 – Placing pieces in both Winter Art Sales – City Gallery / Augusta & Co. both in Augusta, Georgia

January 2022 – Participated in my first Wet Paint Party event at Sacred Heart Augusta, Georgia

May 2022 – Presented group show “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” at Art & Soul Aiken

September 2022 – Guest Speaker at Aiken Artists Guild, Aiken, South Carolina

October 2022 – Selected “Best in Show” for painting “Delilah” at the North Augusta Artists Guild “Fall Into Art” Show at Arts & Heritage Center of North Augusta.

January 2023 – Took part in the “Iconic Augusta” art event Sacred Heart Augusta, Georgia

February 2023 – NAAG Artist of the Month exhibit at Arts & Heritage Center North Augusta, South Carolina.

February 2023 – Accepted for the Emerging Artist show at the Lucy C. Laney Museum Augusta, Georgia.

March 2023 – Chosen again to participate in the annual Wet Paint Party Julian Smith Casino Augusta, Georgia

March 2023 – Entered eight pieces into the GRL PWR exhibit City Gallery Augusta, Georgia.

April 2023 – Guest speaker at North Augusta Artists Guild North Augusta, South Carolina

April 2023 – Six pieces in th “All About Augusta” show at 4P Gallery at 600 Broad in Augusta, Georgia.

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