Welcome to my studio.

This is where observation, wonder, and making come together.

For years, my paintings began at the dining room table. Today, they emerge from a sunlit studio tucked inside our home. It’s a room filled with books, garden flowers, well-loved treasures, sunbathing cats, and all the little things that make me want to stop and look more closely.

It's a very personal space, and I'm happy to invite you in.

This isn't a pristine artist's studio. It's part workspace, part library, part garden overflow, and part refuge. Sketches mingle with seed packets. Nature books gather in stacks. Flowers from the garden find their way into jars and onto the worktable. Cats appear when they feel like it and nap in patches of sunlight while paintings slowly take shape.

This is a room for noticing, experimenting, learning, and making things by hand.

And just beyond the studio door, daily life continues.

My son works nearby, occasionally wandering in with a question, a story, or a burst of laughter. Birds sing outside the open windows. The light changes throughout the day. Rain brings the scent of wet soil from the garden, and the seasons leave their traces everywhere.

The boundaries between home, garden, family, and creative work are a little blurry here.

My work doesn't happen apart from life. It grows out of it.

The Art of Paying Attention

Every painting begins with looking.

Sometimes it's a flower from the garden, or a bird, an animal, a passage in a book, or something I've noticed so many times that suddenly I see it differently.

I study shapes and textures. I learn names. I make sketches. I follow an idea and see where it leads.

This is where the intangible becomes tangible, and where a moment of wonder, a bit of curiosity, or a quiet connection with the natural world can slowly become a painting.

I believe beauty creates care, and the more closely we look at the living world, the more connected we become to it.

So this studio is, in its own small way, a place of restoration.

Come In and Stay Awhile

I'll keep adding photographs, works in progress, favorite books, seasonal garden discoveries, and the little details of studio life as they unfold.

You might see a painting taking shape, a new stack of books, flowers gathered from the garden, or a cat who has decided that the worktable belongs to them.

There's no polished version of the studio waiting behind these photographs. This is the real place where I work and live and notice things.

I'm glad you're here.

Take a look around. Stay awhile.

And when you leave, take a moment to notice something beautiful in your own life.