ABOUT
I paint the ocean because the ocean was the first thing that made me feel something before I had words for it.
That’s what I’m after in every piece — that moment before thought.
That visceral knowing that comes before you any reasoning.
The paintings begin flat on the ground. Oil paint is poured directly onto canvas — layer after layer — until color and transparency build into something that moves the way water moves. Not a representation of the ocean, more like a record of what it feels like to be witness to it.
Each piece is unrepeatable. The paint flows where it flows, and within that flow, details emerge that no hand could have placed — like a fingerprint unique to that moment, through that raw channeling of color creation and placement , and how it moved.
The canvas stays on the ground through most of the process, absorbing layer after layer of oil, color shifting from opaque to translucent as depth builds. Only at the end does it meet the wall — and at that point it carries everything that went into it.
BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR
Baja California Sur came not only to be a home, but as a kind of teacher.
Running the coastline at dawn, swimming with Beau, paddling out past the break — the ocean stopped being something I painted about and became something I painted from. The rawness of these waters changed what I was willing to reach for in the studio. Ever changing, my curiosity always on, baja in of itself keeps you navigating life in uexpected ways. The way I paint, allowing uncertainty to exist is mirroring life and the ocean.
Living alongside marine biologists, conservationists, and the coastal communities who have fought for places like Cabo Pulmo — seeing firsthand what protection can restore, and what carelessness destroys —gave the work a weight beyond aesthetics. The ocean’s beauty and its fragility are not separate things. Neither are mine.
I paint now from Todos Santos, where the desert sierras meet the Pacific. The studio is part of an ongoing project: a space being built from the land itself, with the same philosophy as the paintings — layered, intentional, shaped by what the place asks for rather than what was planned.
“It was a place to feel free. My respect for the sea and the life it holds became much more raw.
I wish to think my art is a way of bringing awareness of it’s beauty, its delicate nature, and how essential the ocean is to our lives.”
COLLECTORS
These paintings live in private homes along the coastlines of California and Mexico, and in collections internationally. They tend to find their way into homes that were designed to hold something — architecturally considered spaces where the work isn’t decoration but the reason the room has a center.
Collectors have described the experience of living with a piece as something that changes, quieter some days, louder on others, always present in a way that surprised them. I think its the ocean or their soul coming through.
That’s the only outcome I paint toward.
ADVOCACY
"We depend on the ocean, and the ocean depends on us. I hope to inspire others to love and respect this relationship."
Through ongoing connection with conservationists, marine biologists, and ocean communities, the work carries a commitment beyond the canvas. A portion of every sale supports ocean preservation efforts. Because the thing you love is worth protecting — not abstractly, but specifically, right now.
If something in the work is calling to you — a piece, a commission, a conversation about what might live in your space — I’d love to hear from you.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Carrizo Gallery, Todos Santos, BCS, MX
2024
GALERIA Todos Santos, BCS, MX
2023
Four Seasons Costa Palmas, BCS, MX
2023 - current
Pez Gordo, Palmilla shoppes, San Jose del Cabo, BCS, MX
2020 - current
En Blanco, San Jose Del Cabo, BCS, MX
2019 - current
Archimedes Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
2018
AXIS Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016
O Gallery, San Jose del Cabo, MX
COLLABORATION
How Deep Is Your Love is a collaboration of various artists in Baja performing live to inspire awareness to rejuvenate the reef system. It is an opportunity for artists sharing this passion to unite and share with others their art and message.
Making Waves is a collaboration of musicians, writers, artists that create live together for a visual and auditory experience to bring awareness of impacts on the ocean and in support of The Surfrider Foundation.