Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. I am a freelance artist specializing in imaginative art for both private individuals and companies. My art career started after college with working as a production artist and graphic designer at a few design and marketing firms for about seven years. Working on print and digital media, I gained insight into client work, and procedures to help a project flow along. As a freelance artist I use several of these skills including communicating to understand the needs of a project/client, and working with digital tools like Photoshop. Clients include Llewellyn Worldwide, Bezier Games, Petersen Games, Fantasy Flight Games, BAEN, and Lightspeed Magazine. I also work on my own projects (such as my Treats series and various fantasy pictures ), and I teach art classes at The Atelier.
About Art
With illustration, and imaginative art specifically, I get to ask the question,“What if?” After that it’s a matter of combining play and work. Each seed of an idea offers so many possibilities, and the final illustration is just one version. At some point I have to stop asking, “What if?” and choose what narrative I want to show. I want to show you the possibilities, the colors, the light of the world around us because that’s what I pull from to make my pictures. I want to delight you with color and whimsy, move you with drama of action and light, or simply make you smile.
Clients/Projects
• Monte Cook Games
• Bezier Games, Inc., Ultimate Werewolf Extreme, primary 2D artist
• Petersen Games, Gods War Glorantha (a Sandy Petersen Game), concept art
• Fantasy Flight Games, various card games including Star Wars, A Game of Thrones, Call of Cthulhu, Arkham Horror, and more
• Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015 Astrological Calendar (links to my online store)
• Department 56 (concept art)
• Lightspeed Magazine
• BAEN
• Private commissions
Published
• Protector, juried into Infected by Art Volume 10
• Libra, published in Astrology. The Library of Esoterica, Dec. 18, 2020, published by Taschen
• Unicorn Dreams, juried into Infected by Art Volume 9
• Rainy Day Dragon (drawing) was selected to be part of ArtOrder, LLC’s Not So Tiny Dragons book which is part of the Tiny Dragon Art Project.
• Artscope Magazine 75, July/August 2018, Centerfold 2, Voodoo Queen
• Water Elemental, juried into Infected by Art Volume 5
• Voodoo Queen, juried into Infected by Art Volume 4
• Llewellyn’s 2015 Astrological Calendar
• The Morrigu, juried into Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
• On the Training of Painters: The Atelier’s Past & Present, group show exhibition catalog
• Drawing and Sketching Secrets: 200 Tips and Techniques for Drawing the Easy Way,
by Donna Krizek, 2012. A sample of my work was used to illustrate drawing from plaster casts.
Juried Shows
• Gen Con Art Show 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023
• 2014 Shadowed Visions Exhibition at The People’s Gallery
• 2009 Dragon*Con
• 2007, 2011 Kelly Galleries Fall Small Works Show
Awards and Honors
• 2023 Capricon Artist Guest of Honor
• 2022 CONvergence Best (piece) in Show for Protector
• 2018 Gods and Monsters “Most Creepy” award for The Alchemist’s Workbench (painting is available)
• 2018 DemiCon 29 Guest of Honor
• 2017 ICON 42 Best Professional Collection
• 2017 ConGlomeration Best in Show for Voodoo Queen (Woman of Power)
• 2017 Guest of Honor, ConGlomeration
• 2016 MidAmeriCon II (WorldCon 2016) Best Color Work (for body of work)
• 2016 MarsCon Guest of Honor
• 2015 CONvergence Best (piece) in Show for Bear Falls
• 2009 CONvergence Best (piece) in Show for Dragon Mural
• 2005 CONvergence Best Amateur Piece
Group Shows
• 2018 Gods and Monsters
• 2019 Contemporary Realism: Works from The Atelier, at the Owatonna Arts Center
• 2017 Breathing Classical Life into Today’s Art, Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art (at the MN Landscape Arboretum Cafe Gallery)
• 2017 Natur Ball: Hidden Persona
• 2016, 2017 The Unicorn Art Show
• 2014 Shadowed Visions Exhibition at The People’s Gallery
• 2011 Atelier show “On the Training of Painters: The Atelier’s Past and Present”
• 2006 Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts “Dance: an exhibition of dance-based imagery”
• 2007 – 2011 The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art End of Year Show