Education:
Brigham Young University, Utah State University (BFA with honors)
Living
Mentors: Grant Speed, George Carlson, Johnathan Kenworthy
Sources
of Artistic Inspiration: fly fishing, bird hunting,
athletics, bird dogs, trout, upland game, waterfowl, horses, human figure,
landscapes
Preferred
Method of Modeling: working from life after a comprehensive
study of anatomy, with strong emphasis on positive/negative space relationships,
gesture, thrust, and abstract shapes
Shows,
Museum Exhibitions, Awards: 1995 Salon, Springville
Museum of Art (Award of Merit); 1995 Western Heritage Art Show; 1996
Salon, Springville Museum of Art; 1996 Western Art Exhibition, Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Museum of Art and History; 1995
& 1996 Sporting and Wildlife Show, Legacy Gallery, National Bird
Dog Museum (permanent collection)
Feature/Interview
Publications: Gray's Sporting Journal (March 1993),
Sporting Classics (Nov/Dec 1994), Big Sky Journal (Flyfishing Issue
1995), Wildlife Art News (Jan/Feb 1996 pg. 54), Ecosostemi Fluviali
(Fly Line -Italy's top flyfishing magazine 1996), Shooting Sportsman
(July/Aug 1997), Wall Street Journal (Front Page, Center, 18 Mar 1999),
Gray's Sporting Journal (May 1999), Canine Images (July 1999)
Current
Gallery List: J.N. Bartfield (New York, NY), Legacy
(Jackson, WY), Collector's Covey (Dallas, TX), The Sportsmans Gallery
(Atlanta, GA), Cross Gate Gallery (Lexington, KY), Pitzer of Carmel
(Carmel, CA)
Hobbies
and Interests: keeping up with wife, Brooke, five daughters
and a son, fishing, hunting, working with bird dogs, athletics, acquiring
old sporting items, studying 19th century painting and sculpture, serving
as scoutmaster and instructor for young men in his church congregation
Other
Notes of Interest: served two years as LDS Church missionary
in Fresno, California teaching the Mexican people; worked six years
in the computer industry for WordPerfect Corp.; was member of three
Utah State High School Championship teams in basketball and track, also
lettered in baseball and football; plays the drums and, occasionally,
the recorder with his nose (every Christmas Eve); ancestors came west
across the plains with the Mormon Pioneers