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My love has always been 2D art, and I enjoy painting in a hyper realistic style.  Many hyper realists paint small subjects on large canvas, exaggerating the detail to a degree where even a camera or Photoshop would be hard pressed to duplicate the clarity.  I flip this concept 180 degrees.  My work fits in your palm, yet it can be magnified to many times the original size, and still appears tightly rendered.  This innovative approach reaches beyond traditional fine art, and the work I create is functional in small spaces, or as an installation of several pieces on larger walls.

My favorite subjects are collections.  Everybody collects something - shoes, hats, bottles, books, steins...I am on a mission to paint them all!  In this way, I delight in sharing my passion with art lovers who appreciate work that pulls from the edgy contemporary styles as well as classic compositions.  I work primarily in oils and acrylics, but frequently I'll bring out some old friends - colored pencils, watercolors, graphite. 

Recent Credits:
2012:  Invited to be Associate Member of Miniature Painters Sculptors Gravers Society of Washington D.C.
2012:  1st Place in Acrylic category, Miniature Art Society of Florida
2012: 2nd AND 3rd Place MonDak Heritage Center International Exhibition
2011:  Award recipient Still Life, Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C.
2011:  Feature artist in Elan Magazine2011:  Feature in a Grafix Arts / Dick Blick video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vk0eP0HqSU
2011:  Masters in Miniature Invitational Exhibition at BRIO Gallery in Galena, IL
2011:  Founding artist for Wings:  A Collaborative Art Project in Loudoun County, VA
2011:  Chosen to paint the images for the cover as well as the months of July and November, for the town of Purcellville, VA's town calendar.2011: Juried into The Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour
2011:  Featured artist at Gateway Gallery in Round Hill, VA
2011:  Member of  http://www.justart-e.com/
2010:  Featured Artist on The World Federation of Miniaturists website at http://www.worldfm.org/featured-artists/
2010:  Featured Artist on The Hilliard Society of Miniature Art website at http://www.art-in-miniature.org/artist.htm
2010:  Award recipient in Oils/Acrylics at Miniature Painters, Sculptors, Gravers Society of Washington D.C. show
2010:  Excellence in Painting at Cider Painters of America Miniature Art Show
2010:  Sited as one of "the Piedmont's best painters of minatures!" The Piedmont Virginian magazine
2010:  Award recipient in the Spanish Moss Miniature Art Exhibit in Mobile Alabama