My Story as a Colorblind Artist

I rely on contrast, texture and feeling rather than traditional color rules. I’ve discovered that I don’t sketch and I don’t paint from photographs. I start with nothing. I put paint down. Scrape it off. I put more paint down. I pull it off. I make a mess.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve ruined it. So, I try something else, most of the time, if you walked into my studio halfway through, you’d think this isn’t going anywhere. But that mess is the point. Somewhere in the chaos, the image begins to reveal itself - not because I planned it, but because I stayed with the process long enough to see it.

I come from a long line of artists, though my path took a different direction for many years. I ran a successful commercial contracting business in the Pacific Northwest for 42 years. Structure, problem-solving, and building things were my life’s work.

Now retired, I finally get to follow the passion that was always there - creating for the sake of discovery.

That’s how my paintings are born.