When I think about art or creativity, these things come to mind:

Discovery, experimentation, development and learning. There are many ways to approach working with these elements, and usually a combination of individual and group project produce an introductory capacity to build further skill levels and deepen perception. It may take the openness of a child of any age to discover that ‘I can do it’ moment, but once established, there is an open road to self expression. The rest is a matter of interest, perhaps skill and access to an environment which fosters and values such expression.

I am primarily a painter/visual artist; I enjoy working in both two and three dimensions, with an emphasis in composition, design, color fieldwork and collage. I am rather fond of building objects to be further reworked.  The found object, assemblage, and refusemblage- objects taken from the neighborhood rubbish pick up and reworked into sculpture and other objects ‘d art have all become part of my repertoire.

In the past I have worked in residencies with Native American populations, prison and youth at risk populations and school children in the Salt Lake valley.