My original paintings on canvas, metal, and other medium have often been featured on the covers of magazines and books. My art has been exhibited in fine art galleries from Key West to Hawaii, and I've been a featured artist at ArtExpo in New York City. While many genres of art appear in my portfolio, large-scale figurative art (on canvas and metal) is my specific creative passion and expertise. In particular, I'm most interested in creating commissioned figurative originals for private collectors.

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Phoenix, AZ 1961 — I was born with a passion to create. I started drawing a very early age and learned to paint with a variety of mediums while honing my skills throughout childhood. My family moved a lot from one end of the country to the other, and I often attended two or three different schools on any given year. I was always the "new kid". Fortunately, pencils and paper where easy to pack, so along the way I developed my self-nurtured natural talent and passion for art.

At age 14, we finally settled in the Portland, Oregon area for a few years. There, I discovered the airbrush and other art mediums while further developing my drawing and photography skills.

I returned to Phoenix, Arizona for a few years as a young man. In the Spring of 1983, I met the love of my life, Kathryn. We married in December of that same year. The next year we moved to Oregon together.

In the late '80’s through mid ‘90’s, I was the early marketing force behind the fast-growing Hollywood Video stores, both as their creative director and muralist. I created their corporate identity and brand, and designed the look-and-feel of the first stores while painting dozens of large-scale wall murals of movie stars and personalities for the fast growing retail giant.

After leaving Hollywood Video in 1994, I continued to refine my creative skills, producing a series of large paintings of American motorcycles and other subject matter before finally transitioning to mostly figurative artworks and abstract originals.

In 2004, I created the first of many large-scale realistic nudes on specially prepared canvas and migrating to metal figurative originals in 2006. Kathryn and I moved to Las Vegas with our dog "Dargo" later that same year. I continually find inspiration in the flood of imagery and the stimulating energy that permeates this city.

A.D. in the studio, circa 1984