Who I Am

I am from Salt Lake City, and studied painting and drawing at the University of Utah with V Douglass Snow, F Anthony Smith and Alvin Gittins. After college, I began my career as a pictorial painter of billboards for outdoor advertising companies in the west. I turned from painting billboards to designing them. This eventually led to me relocating to Providence, Rhode Island and becoming a Creative Director at The Providence Journal Company. I directed their pre-internet project called videotext, which combined text and computer graphic images simply like billboards. I was a very early adopter of computer graphics and it led to a successful career as a Creative Director for my own company, where I focused on interactive digital technology for video, animation, audio, and digital print design. I worked with Fortune 500 corporations, network and public television stations, leading universities, and local businesses. I was part of the team that launched the Food Network. I also taught the first page design course at the Rhode Island School of Design on the MacPlus 1986 and I continued to teach as an adjunct faculty member for fifteen years.

Throughout my career I have been fascinated with the gestalt of billboard design—merging idea, copy and image into a singular message. Years of experience with image, composition, color, and scale made the move to painting a natural progression. By 2018, I turned away from commercial design to become a full-time painter.