About Me
 

My life as an artist began in my childhood, growing up as an expatriate living in the heart of Austria. I learned early on to embrace multicultural and cosmopolitan influences from either side of the Atlantic, which shaped what would become a lifelong passion for art, illustration, and design.

My work draws on late 19th and early 20th century movements in fine art and illustration, in service of 21st century humanist philosophy. Often this means re-imagining classical themes from legend and myth via contemporary subject matter, usually in a narrative style. Many of my paintings are fables, featuring totemic animal archetypes and talismanic objects.

My formal training as an illustrator began with a Bachelor of the Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which I received in 2007. Since then, I have worked as a freelance artist, and exhibited my original paintings in galleries across the United States, Europe, and Australia.

In addition to painting, drawing, and sometimes sculpting original artwork, I have also worked since 2011 in custom jewelry design. As a designer, I have partnered with master bench jewelers to capture my clients’ unique visions for their engagement, wedding, and family jewelry.

Currently, I live near Seattle, WA, where I share a home with my spouse in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

Education 

Bachelor of the Fine Arts, Illustration and Art History, received 2007, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Experience

Custom Jewelry Designer at Greenlake Jewelry Works, 2020 through Present.

Custom Jewelry Designer at Joseph Jewelry 2016-2019.

Freelance Illustrator for Bear Wolf Books 2018-2021

Exhibitions

Selected Group and Solo

2023 - Fool’s Gambit I & Fool’s Gambit II at Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2022 - Danse Macabre at Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022 - A/B Test at ERGO Gallery, Seattle, WA

2022 - 10 Year Anniversary Show at Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2021 - Parables at Stranger Factory, Albuquerque, NM

2020 - New Growth at Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA

2020 - Ecstatic Flux at Wow x Wow Gallery

2019 - Annual Portrait Show at Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 - Pareidolia at Antler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018 - The Cat Show at BeinArt Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2017 - Toychest Apocalpyse at Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2017 - Familiar at Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA

2016 - Animalia at Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

2015 - Little Big at Haven Gallery, Northport, NY

2015 - Unnatural Histories IV at Antler Gallery, Portland, OR

2015 - The 20/20 Project at Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA

2014 - Brink at Antler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014 - Encyclopedia Botannica at Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2013 - Metamorphoses at Gallery Twenty-Two, Charlotte, NC

2012 - Megafauna at Genome Gallery, Charlotte, NC