ABOUT THE ARTIST

Welcome to Car Crazy Art – Where Creativity Fuels Automotive Passion.

Cars were never just objects in my life they were part of the story that I grew up with.

I learned early, working alongside my father. He grew up in Indianapolis, near the racetrack, where the sound of engines was ambition. As a kid, he spent time around engine builders and drivers. He wanted to be an Indy driver or a fighter pilot. He had an impressive career flying. That mindset precision, risk, and movement inspires me.

My mother brought something equally important. She had a natural creative instinct—an eye for form, color, and expression that balanced all that machinery. She enjoyed traveling the world and learning and respecting new cultures. And she has driven many unique cars in her life time. They were both very supportive and inspirational.

Somewhere between the two, my direction was set.

I ended up in Southern California surrounded by car culture at every level—from design studios to custom builders that were shaping some of the most iconic vehicles on the road. As a teenager, I could walk into shops, talk with people doing real work, and get advice from those who had already mastered their craft. That kind of access stays with you.

Cars weren’t just something you owned they were freedom. Cruising the Pacific Coast Highway, windows down, ocean air coming through, and you knew how special it was.

When we were kids we would go to races. Build cars with our dad. In my late teens, I had worked my way up to a red 1962 Jaguar E-Type. Later, with my brother helping on the paint, we built a station wagon with flames. A perfect beach cruiser a whole different type of car but, just as meaningful.

I always had an interest in art and education, but once I discovered the Art Center College of Design, the direction became clear.

With over 30 years as an artist and industrial designer, I approach each piece with both sides in mind. Part of it is mechanical—an appreciation for how things are built, how they function. Part of it is design how every line has purpose. The other part is emotional—the memories cars carry, the places they take you, and the way they become tied to specific moments in your life.

Some pieces begin as commissions your car, your story refined through adjustments in stance, proportion, light, and composition.

Others expand into something more narrative. My biggest inspiration is to paint cars in situ, placed within an environment where a full story can unfold around them.

Because cars are never just about the machine.

They’re about the people you meet and the places they take you. The conversations along the way. The roads you didn’t plan to take. And the quiet stretches where it’s just you and the drive.

There’s also the solitude—the moments when you pull over, step out, and take it all in. That pause where everything slows down before you get back in and rejoin the world. And after you go somewhere to get away you find that you have been reset and take one or two last looks over your should at your vehicle before you rejoin civilization.

That’s the space I try to capture in my art work.

Not just what the car looks like—

but what it feels like to live with It.

The memories that it holds.