I first became interested in photography when I borrowed my mom’s old Nikon camera in 1986 and started shooting whatever caught my eye. I entered a photo contest at my school and won in the color category. When I graduated university in 1991 my mom gifted me the Nikon (the very same camera she used to take baby pictures of me). I took a photo class offered by SF City College and used the darkroom at the Harvey Milk photo center to develop my b&w work. In 2003 I became a member of the cooperative gallery City Art and had my first show in February of 2004. The night of the opening I sold my first photograph to my friend Tim Richards. The picture was of my girlfriend at the time in the bath tub and it had a fuzzy golden glow to it. I never liked putting my work in a conventional frame and in 2005 discovered printing on canvas. At about the same time I was using the Dry Brush filter in Photoshop to make my images look more like paintings. I found a guy online that only printed on canvas and wrapped the image on stretcher bars like a typical canvas painting. I almost always crop my work to focus on what I think is important in the frame. Printing on canvas solved the problem off odd sized images and ugly frames. In 2010 I started using epoxy resin in my work. The resin is mixed with a hardener and then poured over the image. It takes 24 hours for the resin to harden completely and the result is a high gloss finish similar to glass. I have used resin to cover my larger canvas pieces as well as 8”x8” and 8”x10” images that are affixed to wood panels. In 2012 I started creating images using wax. I grated crayons, added the shavings to canvas and then melted it with a heat gun. In 2017 I discovered the “drop pour” method of painting. Different colors of acrylic paint are added to a cup in layers with a squirt of silicone. The paint is dumped onto the canvas all at once and the canvas is tilted to move the paint across the surface and over the edges. It is very messy but fun. After a minute or two the silicone creates cells in the abstract image. Watching drop pour videos on YouTube led me to using resin as paint. Pigment is added to the resin to color it and the resin is poured onto the canvas. Because of the viscosity of the resin it is difficult to create anything but colorful abstractions which I really like. In 2018 I pressed flowers and applied them to a painted canvas with a thick application of resin over the top. In 2020 a move across the Bay resulted in the discovery of a box of cassette tapes which were repurposed into nostalgic media pieces. In July of 2022 I started working with watercolors after being inspired by the work of John Lurie (Painting With John). Despite the success I have in working with many different mediums I am loathe to repeat myself too frequently. Learning new processes and ways of expressing myself artistically keep me connected to my creative fire.