About the artist . . .
Originally from Salina, Kansas, I have spent the past 40+ years working as an artist and writer in positions from Kansas to Missouri and the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where I eventually established my award-winning creative services firm, Noodle Ranch, whose operations continued after moving to Colorado.
My fine art work has sprung from life-long studies, which have included painting at Kansas Wesleyan University (1972), classical, sight-sized drawing at the Atelier-Lack in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1978), and one-on-one studies with various artists, including childhood art studies with the late Richard Bergen, and Dora Heck, both in Salina, Kansas.
In 1994, my family and I moved to Manitou Springs, Colorado where I do my best to live a quiet, peaceful, low-profile lifestyle while pursuing my work as a writer and fine artist, and where I continue to write, illustrate, and publish the award-winning humour/satire series, "The Bee Society" to a worldwide, online following.
Throughout my lifetime, I have pursued my love of the arts, and strive to apply my training and skills in not only the field of visual arts, but in music (as a performer) and literature (as a writer). My work has been exhibited with the Pikes Peak Pastel Society (former member), the "BitxBit" exhibition in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in the juried 2002 Pastel National, and the juried ArtBox exhibitions in New York City (2018), Zurich, Switzerland (2020), Barcelona, Spain (2021), and the juried ArtBox exhibition mounted as a part of the 2022 Biennale Arte di Venezia.
I continue to build a growing body of work through which I hope to convey both mood and story.
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purchase of a piece, please contact me via the Contact Page, or by phone:
1.719.685.4426
9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mountain time, Monday-Friday.
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