La Puerta (Snakelocks at Benalmádena)
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Shelter (Real Alcázar de Seville y Benalmádena)
2024
Oil / acrylic and watercolor pencil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Passage to Nerja (Tomate Marino)
2024
Oil, acrylic and watercolor pencil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Through the Wing a New World Swims (Nāpali)
2023
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Mimicry #2 (Long Spine Sea Fan)
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Mimicry (Limenitis arthemis & Montipora capitata)
2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Mimicry #3 (Eucalyptus haemastoma)
2022
Gouache on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Scribbly Meets Marine
2021
Gouache on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Memory of a Landscape that Never Was (For Merle)
2021
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
The Space Between (Ma Waena)
2021
Oil/acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches

Private Collection / Harrisonburg, VA

Ancient Oceans, Current Clime
2021
Oil/acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Bommie and the Wrasse
2020
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches

Inspired by both the sandstone formations of the Blue Mountains and the Great Barrier Reef; research conducted in the fall of 2019.

Lehulehu (Augusta to Hanauma)
2021
Oil / acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches

Private Collection

Circling (World on Fire)
2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 inches
Hol Chan (For Jamie)
2019
Oil / acrylic on canvas
72 x 48 inches

"Hol Chan" is Mayan for "little channel." This work is the result of a research trip to the Belize Barrier Reef, where I visited a reserve by the same name. In addition to documenting the health of the reef at various locations (at various points north and south in Belize), I worked with a shark conservation team in Riversdale.

Presence
2019
Oil/acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Nui (For Ruth)
2019
Oil/acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches

"Nui" means big, important or many in Hawaiian. This painting is dedicated to Ruth Gates, who invited me to the Gates Lab in Oahu, where she led innovative coral research. She died in 2018.

King Nudibranch
2019
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 inches

Currently on view in an exhibition at the U.S. Embassy in Lomé, Togo.

King Nudibranch (Detail)
2019
Oil/acrylic on canvas
A World Within a World Within a World
2018
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
This image features various imagery of coral, including microscopic views of polyps from the confocal microscope at the Gates Coral Lab off of Oahu, Hawaii.

Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Shifting Moon
2018
Oil/acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Clown
2017
Oil, acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signal
2017
Oil, acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Meditation on the Big Lake #1
2018
Gouache on canvas
20 x 20 inches

Private Collection / New York, NY

My Brain, Your Brain
2017
Oil/acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Tiny Giants
2017
Oil, acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Completed while at a residency at the Friday Harbor Labs / University of WA on San Juan Island.

Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
While We Are Sleeping
2016
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Collection of the Buffett Cancer Center / UNMC, Omaha, NE
Third Ventricle (Meditations on the Spot / Holding My Breath)
2016
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Erase
2015
Acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Carnival
2015
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches

Private Collection / Kansas City, MO

Thread (To Heaven Below)
2015
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Private Collection / Fremont, NE
Reverie (I am You, You are Me)
2016
Oil/acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Collection of the Buffett Cancer Center / UNMC, Omaha, NE
Caesura (Too Hot Bivalve)
2016
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Cave (For the Nurse Shark That Wanted to Sleep)
2015
Acrylic and oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Hoping for Infinity
2015
Oil, acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
Collection of Dollar Tree Corporation
Reef #3
2014
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Private Collection / Omaha, NE
Reef #5
2014
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
Measured Against the Wave
2013
Acrylic/oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Torrent (The Heart)
2012
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 inches
Drift
2012
Oil/acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Private Collection / Kansas City, MO