The child of an artist and architect, I grew up immersed in California’s Central Coast arts scene. Watching art being created and learning to see the world through the lens of light and composition, I received my early arts education through osmosis.
Influential artists such as my mother, Elaine Badgley, Channing Peake, Howard Bradshaw, Dorothy Bowman, Jack Oggsberger, and Rufino Tomayo made a profound and personal impact on my development.
I began my own life as a painter in San Francisco in the mid-1960s and got hooked on the Hard Edge style, teaching myself color and developing my spectrum in the open fields between straight lines.
Today, I paint houses for a living and live for my paintings. In other words, I paint to paint. My sense of color, visualization, and expression has transformed my work into a more fluid, abstract, and figurative style, akin to the works that surrounded me when I was young.
My work is intuitive, simple, and colorful.
thoughts on my art
When I start a piece, I have no idea what is going to happen.
When I start a piece, I have no idea what is going to happen. I have developed a number of techniques that contribute to my style. I just let these go on the paper or canvas, and as the piece develops, I start building and arranging the lines, color, and texture. Really, it’s about letting go with whatever medium I choose. A form of meditation, my art is the subconscious expression of my life experiences. The more I live life, the more I have to express.