Born and raised in Texas, I received my Bachelor of Science from West Texas State University and my MFA from Texas Christian University. Following graduate school, I spent eight years teaching painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba School of Art in Canada. At this time, my work was primarily installation work, often filling entire spaces with varying materials to create total transformations.

Shortly after my return to Texas, I put my art on hold and began painting large sets for stage productions and television. I returned to teaching for a few years and taught scenic painting in the theater department at Southern Methodist University. In 2002, while studying the art of divergent cultures; Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, China, and Japan, as well as the imagery used in street art and full body tattoos, I was inspired to return to creating my own personal art. I was drawn to the honesty and unassuming nature of outsider art, James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, ca. 1950-1964 and Emory Blagdon’s Healing Machines as well as much of the work featured in John Beardsley’s Garden’s of Revelation. Much of this work continues to have a profound influence on my work today.

Throughout my career as an artist, scenic artist and educator, I have been fascinated with the union of opposites: past and present, exotic and familiar, near and far, real and unreal, symbolic and concrete. The concept of divergent forms coexisting developed into a type of alchemy, morphing the past into the present and vice versa.  My own personal work has evolved as a never ending quest to combine, define and redefine the color, texture and pattern of the contemporary landscape in response to constant and ever changing cycle of decline and rebirth. This elusive, organic and architectural phenomenon continues to be the overriding theme in my elaborately painted sculptures and installations.