I began painting in earnest in 1996, after reading Henry Miller's inspired passage on Henri Matisse in "Tropic of Cancer." While studying computer science at Montana State University - Bozeman, I used a bedroom in an old farmhouse as a makeshift studio, combining instruction from university art courses with independent experimentation as an avenue into making art. I moved to the Bay Area in the fall of 2000, and currently live with my wife and two daughters near San Francisco's Ocean Beach, with a studio in Haight-Ashbury.

The latest paintings are influenced by digital technology, and by the tools used to understand, create and interact with that technology. They are an investigation of what happens to the meaning of basic symbols when they are fractured, dissolved, repeated and reassembled. Symbols that we barely notice in our daily routines take on new significance when they are pulled from their mundane context and used in an unexpected analog setting.