In 1973 I set out with college degree in hand from California State University, Chico (then called Chico State College) to begin a career in graphic design and silk screen printing. Photography was an adjunct to my design career and over the years I shot a lot of film. It was something I liked to do, however the images went into my archives. A few were lab printed, framed and hung, but most languished away in the dark.

Silk screen printing gave way within a half-a-dozen years to full-bore graphic design which then dove into the world of computers in 1983. Over the years, from that rudimentary beginning, I fully incorporated digital technologies to run the business and as design and production tools. The advancement of inkjet printing has now brought things full circle for me — back into printing. Albeit, a very different version, but printing none the less.

As I saw what others were doing with archival printing and as the costs for the equipment came down, my interest was piqued. So I bought a Nikon 8000 film scanner to capture what I had on film. This brought my film archive out of the drawer. You have to be able to print them, too, so the next step, after much consideration, was a commitment to Epson’s Ultrachrome® printing technology.

From the technology came the execution of my ideas for my art print series. It began with an idea of having a picture within a picture. Some of the prints have a background image that retains most of it's “picture-ness” and others were taken to varying degrees of abstraction. There is no deep rationale as to how each print was done other than what felt right at the time! I tend to see my process as a kind of digital painting. But I also very much enjoy photographs in a more traditional presentation, so beginning with Collection 7, I present images from my body of work as single images.

As displayed on this website, you can only see what an image is, not it’s qualities as a print. For that you have to see one in front of you. My studio is in beautiful downtown Chico, so if you can get by give me a call. If you can’t get by, but would like to purchase one of my prints, I offer a 30-day, money back guarantee to help you overcome the fear of buying without seeing it first. But I'm sure that when you see one you won't be disappointed!