My first creative love was photography. It has been a part of my life since I was a kid. Like a decades long marriage, we’ve had our ups and downs and occasional separations along the way, but we’ve never strayed too far from one another. A box camera first exposed me to the beauty of solitary seascapes, rural landscapes, and stark, cold winter scenes. From the very beginning, the resounding theme in my images has been one of solitude.

While living in Italy, I became increasingly interested in color and texture, the deep saturated colors of the Mediterranean and the gritty textures one might only find in a centuries old city. Never straying far from the theme of solitude, even in a chaotic city of 1 million souls, I began “unplugging” my images from the noise that surrounded them. It was also in Italy where I found expression through travel writing. I developed the Napoli Unplugged Website, created and co-authored the Napoli Unplugged Guide to Naples, and I wrote about Naples and the Amalfi Coast in various print and online publications.

An unexpected move brought me to Arkansas where I am starting a new chapter and am finding new expression through essay writing, creating mixed media collages, and designing a variety of artful products for She, drawn from my journeys around the world and the people I’ve met along the way.

Through She, I hope to bring you beautiful and thoughtful art, fine art photographic prints, artful books, whimsical note cards and stationary, and other creations that give voice to the faces, places and stories I’ve encountered along a road well traveled.