For my boys

I’m a Wisconsin-based artist making work rooted in family, memory, loss, instinct, and fatherhood.

A lot of the work goes back to being that little kid sitting in my grandad’s lap, painting with him for hours. I didn’t understand then how much that time would stay with me, but now, when I create, I feel myself going back to that memory.

When I start a piece, I don’t always know where it is going. I didn’t grow up thinking I’d be an artist. It came later through family, memory, loss, and trying to understand things I couldn’t explain. Most of the time, I’m not trying to make something perfect. I’m following a feeling and seeing where it leads.

My work often carries faces, birds, shapes, color, and movement. Those things show up because they are part of how I tell the story.

But the work is not only about me. It is also about what I want to show my boys: that fear does not always have to be something we run from. Sometimes we can face it, sit with it, and turn it into something honest.

I’m learning that as I teach them.