I received my BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and my MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. I also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. My artwork has been included in over forty exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-Western regions of the United States as well as abroad. I have served as an Arts Administrator for the Mayor’s Office in Baltimore, was a member of the faculty at St. Mary's College, Towson University, Howard Community College, Dundalk Community College and Loyola College of Maryland. I have received numerous grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, including the 2001 Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts and nineteen Artist-In-Education residencies.

Travel is an important aspect to my art making process. In 1999, I visited four cities in Japan. The travel/study visits are documented through drawing , writing and photography. Then, upon my return to the United States, I began work on the Japan series. My travel/study trips have included Mexico, Ecuador, Greece and most recently, Thailand.

The paintings submitted are a direct result from my visit to Thailand in 2004. While in Thailand, my travels took me to Bangkok, Chang Mai, Phitsanulok, and Lampang. In each of the cities and the countryside between them, are many beautiful Buddhist temples. The temples, or “wats”, are elaborately decorated with gold, jewels, ceramic tiles and teak wood. The designs are composed of many small parts that cover large surfaces of the wat architecture. Tiny shards of glass and ceramic are carefully placed in the designs creating rhythms and patterns as they follow the contours of the façade. That is where my interest is, in the rhythms and patterns of designs from Thailand wats.

To study and document my theme of rhythms and patterns in Southeast Asian design, my tools were drawing, writing, photography and reading. At each temple site, my concentration was on selecting specific designs to photograph. Deborah Viles, my wife and collaborator, took most of the photographs allowing me time to make drawings at each of the wats. While on the road, my travel hours were devoted to writing and reading about the sites. The paintings of Thailand wat designs are all small cropped views of wat architecture. Each painting is an episode from an overwhelming environment of stupas (spiritual monuments) and wiharns (prayer halls), which vary in style from region to region in Thailand. The lyrical designs of Chang Mai in the north have a fluid rhythm, while the Bangkok temples in central Thailand have a geometric motif. Each painting is an intimate view of surface and design meant to feel close enough to the viewer to touch.