The artist was encouraged to start painting with watercolors by Diane Wallace, an artist in Morgan Hill, California. Wallace taught him the importance of light and tone. More importantly, she explained that if we can observe the patterns formed at the edges of objects as they interact with the edges of neighboring forms, we discover the creative beauty that is available to artists.
A science background helped him to understand that our perspective of colors and shapes is really our observation of light bouncing off colored objects. As artists, we concentrate on light and color and tone as our right brains see, rather than as we were taught in school. The books and color wheel of Michael Wilcox have influenced the artist in understanding the use of complementary colors to achieve depth, shadow and form.
After a few years of painting in watercolor, he turned to acrylics. One of the South Africa seascapes, is a detailed study of a yacht turning around the Cape of Good Hope.
The artist is now painting in water soluble oils. He paints the intersection of land and sea. The California paintings are of a very beautiful golf course at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. This is an environment of blues, greys and multiple other colors, all influenced by the atmospheric effects that constantly change the mood. He is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists.