I am a Dallas-based illustrator/painter with commissions from the United States Postal Service (a stamp of American short-story writer O. Henry), Boy Scouts of America, Chicago Sun Times, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Society of Visual Communications, Hartford Courant, Hunt Petroleum, Museum of Natural History NYC, Newsweek, Northwestern University, PC Magazine, Rutgers University, The Salvation Army, Southern Methodist University, University of Notre Dame, University of Richmond, and the University of Texas. I was once told that doing art is the great journey. With no roadmaps. No directions. Sometimes no known destination. And the only guidance you may be blessed with is intuition. Intuition fueled by imagination. Although my work is representational and derived from nature, I leave it open to interpretation. Two of my influences are the American painter George Inness for his later work and its minimal detail, lighting and soft brushwork and German painter Gerhard Richter for his unorthodox choice of subject matter and superb technical ability. I tend to focus on the graphic quality of a landscape with an emphasis on light. Light fascinates me. I love to manipulate it to express a mood, a time of day, even a season of the year. As for my cloudscapes they give me the opportunity to border on the abstract. My goal is to make something that excites me. Something that resonates visually and emotionally, not only for me but for the viewer as well.