I was born in the Netherlands and raised in the Midwest. My interest in art and photography began back in early childhood. I've always enjoyed drawing and painting, and my introdution to photography began at around age nine when I received a toy camera that shot "real film". I attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago after High School, where I studied life drawing, illustration and design. With a solid reference from one of my art school instructors I landed a job with a small Ad/Print Agency. That was the beginning of a professional journey that included work at various Advertising Firms and Industrial Design Firms. During that period I continued my interest in photography and painting... and all things about the American West.
The collection of photographs in this site represent the places and people across this country that have inspired me as an artist and excited me as a photographer. In presenting these images, it's my hope that you may also experience that visual moment captured in time, and perhaps evoke an emotion or recall a memory from another time or place, real or imagined. |
