Color has been known to influence a person’s mood and attitude. That being the case, I hope my colors can produce a pleasing experience. I strive to record unique people, places and things in an enjoyable image.

I value the overall image over extreme detail. (It took twenty years to get over that hump.) Like designers on press checks tell pressmen to: “Pump up the color”, I too, like to “pump it up”. Nature and the world around us offer a kaleidoscope of inspiration daily.

Art consultants and critics prefer an artist stick to one area of style and subject matter. Over thirty years ago while painting on the ranch I was referred to as a “cowboy artist”. There’s a certain confinement to that label that was resisted. When an art critic described my work as “feel good art’ rather than “fine art”, I felt I had arrived at my destination. When a client tells me the picture takes them back to that favorite place, event or memory, I feel I have done my job.

I love the freedom to paint what I want and not be constrained to one subject. Personally there is no need to produce offensive, shocking or depressing images. The news media and entertainment industry supplies us with enough of that. Life is too short and as an old country song says: “I ain’t got time to be unhappy”.

So for now, I choose, and am delighted to produce “feel good art” for people that want to feel good and enjoy life.