I've been fascinated with faces as long as I can remember. A small detail can make an amazing difference in capturing someone's likeness and personality. Even the placement of an eyelash can change a portrait's expression and what it says about a person. In drawing a face, you can sometimes feel what that individual feels. Art is a wonderful vicarious experience, especially if you're drawing a tiger.

My subjects are portraits of people and animals and are characterized, hopefully, by a high degree of accuracy and dramatic contrast. I work mostly in dry media such as charcoal, graphite and pastel but occasionally explore painting and mixed media. In some future time when I'm retired, I'll have a chance to focus on painting, but for now dry media provides the spontaneity required by my schedule.

For portraiture, I like to work from photographs, with finishing details done from life sittings if I need more visual information than the photograph provides.

I'm a member of the Aiken Artist Guild and the Artists' Guild of Columbia County. My work has been shown in galleries, shops and art festivals in the United States.