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.

My subjects are portraits of people and animals and are characterized by detail and dramatic contrast. I work mostly in dry media such as charcoal, graphite and pastel but occasionally explore painting and mixed media.

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, the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art and the Artists' Guild of Columbia County. My work has been shown in galleries, shops and art festivals in the United States.