I began formal academic training in painting & drawing concurrently with pursuing a degree in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  Upon moving to the Atlanta area in 2000, I continued studies at the Atlanta College of Art with Eula Rodgers Ginsberg.

My first major exhibition was a group show at the LaGrange National Biennial, juried by Benny Andrews in 2002.  My work has continued to grow and develop as my views of the worlds of engineering and of the painting continued to converge into a singular form of expression.  In 2005, heavily influenced by studying Milton Avery and Robert Rauschenberg, I began work on my new series, The History of Energy, which has been a personal synthesis of scientific theory, the history of science, the topography of oil textures, and color expression.