Artist Bio:
In the summer of 2000, I headed to Mongolia for a Peace Corps assignment in the small rural town of Zuunhaara. During the long winter nights, temperatures hovered near -30 Farenheit for weeks on end. When not working in one of the local schools, I taught myself to paint using the whitewashed walls of my home as a canvas and paint from the local market as my medium. At other times I would visit the "dump" and gather large oxidized slabs of iron to paint on. Sometimes I would keep these, sometimes I would take them back to the dump for others to discover.
Two years after having arrived, I returned to the United States with a renewed vigor for painting and other forms of the arts. I continue to experiment with various mediums, now residing in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. My themes explore the natural world and a sense of wonder that this engenders. I'm fascinated with how this sense has the tendency to become diluted as we become adults and the way that children exemplify it.
In the summer of 2000, I headed to Mongolia for a Peace Corps assignment in the small rural town of Zuunhaara. During the long winter nights, temperatures hovered near -30 Farenheit for weeks on end. When not working in one of the local schools, I taught myself to paint using the whitewashed walls of my home as a canvas and paint from the local market as my medium. At other times I would visit the "dump" and gather large oxidized slabs of iron to paint on. Sometimes I would keep these, sometimes I would take them back to the dump for others to discover.
Two years after having arrived, I returned to the United States with a renewed vigor for painting and other forms of the arts. I continue to experiment with various mediums, now residing in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. My themes explore the natural world and a sense of wonder that this engenders. I'm fascinated with how this sense has the tendency to become diluted as we become adults and the way that children exemplify it.