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In the early 70s I got involved in the Floyd Avenue Cultural Center, a group of artists making movies, creating happenings, etc.

In the 70s and early 80s I took staged and found-object photographs and created slide shows to entertain guests invited to my home. I also used some of these slide shows as backdrops for bands playing music at Little Sisters of the Poor.

In the mid-80s I met John Morgan and began using oil pastels. As first I drew mainly food and rabbits and people.

Between 1991 and 2000 I basically stopped making art. I was tired of people asking me to draw their pets or their portraits. Ron, my partner of over 30 years now, and I bought our first house together. Instead of art making, I channeled my creativity into the house, my relationship, and into my day-job in human resources.

In early 2000 I began drawing men - mainly men kissing other men. I believe it’s important for people to see men kissing. We have Rodin’s kiss, and it’s a man and woman naked in embrace and kissing. But we don’t have images of men kissing.

From 2004 - 2005 I completed a series that I called Simple Equations (after a song title by a British group named Madness). These large oil pastel and graphite pieces addressed the power of shadows and how they allow us to see lightness. They were each derived from found photographs. The main pieces were based on news photos of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson; they are the two young men who murdered Matthew Sheppard, a gay college student, in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. These were large oil pastel drawings, mostly 43” x 43”, sometimes paired with printed text. The words weren’t meant to be captions, but they did help tell the story. I wanted people to have to look at Aaron and Russell’s faces, but I also wanted them to know what they did. I showed these pieces at artSpace@plantzero in the summer of 2004. Then in the fall of 2004 I was asked to show them in Holy Comforter Episcopal Church during a service of hope and remembrance.

Today, I'm working on more pieces that address male sexual idenity. That's what was in my show "Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits in September & October 2007 at artspace. And it's also what I'll be showing at the GCCR Gallery in the Gay Community Center of Richmond in Richmond, VA in September & October 2008.

Rod 1

2007
61 cm x 61 cm

Peter

2007
oil pastels, graphite on gessoed paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Buck

2006
oil pastels & graphite on paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Pierre

2007
oil pastels & graphite on gessoed paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Lance

2006
oil pastels & graphite on paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Jack

2007
oil pastels & graphite on gessoed paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Spike

2007
oil pastels & graphite on gessoed paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Benjamin

2007
oil pastels & graphite on gessoed paper
61 cm x 61 cm

Adam

2007
16 in x 16 in