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I was from a literary world before I met Steven. I'm an English major who has written 2 1/2 novels and am still waiting for the first one to get published. While waiting for a publisher, I got involved in one of Steven's funkier ideas, painting reeds. We were both looking for something that would provide a unique blend of color, texture and geometry, and we found it walking the dog along the rural roads where we live. Cattail reeds produce a long beveled leaf that is rigid and consistent in size which provides a workable surface for our abstract mosaics. We settled on two sizes for the art that are large enough to provide a dramatic image, yet fits into anyone's home well. Collecting and cutting reeds is the slow hard part of the art. Painting them hundreds of colors and then selecting a color group to make each piece is what's fun. I have a lot of fun putting these together and hope you find them enjoyable too.

Color, geometry and motion are the driving elements in my artwork. For those of you who have visited my booth at a fair, you know that I paint a wide variety of subjects including florals, landscapes, abstracts, seascapes and more. But, all of my work has a common look and feel that identifies it as one of mine.

My father was an architect and I grew up in a very modern home in the 1960's. I enjoyed the pop art movement of the time along with impressionistic work of the prior century. People at shows tell me my work looks like 50 different artists, everyone sees something a little different in what I create. Most of the painting I currently do is acrylic on canvas using a pallet knife. All of my work at shows is original, I have made no copies or reproductions of any of my work. I paint and sell several hundred paintings a year at shows and through a few galleries. Cheryl and I expect we will slow down some time in the future, but that point has not hit us yet. Thanks for supporting the arts.